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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI:Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360562
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Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed tochanges in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current PopulationSurvey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained bychanges in wage setting between and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360538
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce:How Services Facilitate Firms’ International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services andthe decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empiricalanalysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions ofheterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360603
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Offshoring and Firm Performance:Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
turns out that, compared tonon-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and hada …, and this points to self-selection of “better” firms into offshoring.This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from theliterature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360615
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Can maquila booms reduce poverty? : evidence from Honduras
De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2008
"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520970
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China - Meeting the Challenges of Offshore and Large-Scale Wind Power : Regulatory Review of Offshore Wind in Five European Countries
World Bank - 2012
The objective of this study is to review international experience in offshore wind power development and draw on the lessons learned from the experience of different countries. To date, that experience has predominantly been limited to Europe. Significantly different regulatory and physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550645
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China - Meeting the Challenges of Offshore and Large-Scale Wind Power : Strategic Guidance
World Bank - 2012
In view of the escalating global problems associated with the environment, energy, and natural resources, especially the increasing sign of global climate change, wind power is receiving more and more high-level attention on a global scale, and it has reached a rapid rate of development as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550646
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Offshore Wind Roadmap for the Philippines
World Bank - 2022
This roadmap provides strategic analysis of the offshore wind development potential in the Philippines, considering the opportunities and challenges under different, hypothetical growth scenarios. The goal is to provide evidence to support the Government of the Philippines in establishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254898
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Offshoring der Produktions- und der F&E-Funktion : Auswirkungen auf den finanziellen Unternehmenserfolg
Kohles, Alexander; Homburg, Christian - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021862