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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT?

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...

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Export-Magnification Effect of Offshoring

Kleinert, Jörn; Zorell, Nico - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2010

between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …

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Innovation in China: the rise of Chinese inventors in the production of knowledge

Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2011

<p><p>In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...</p></p>

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Exploiting the Potential for Services Offshoring: Evidence from German Firms

Eppinger, Peter S. - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

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Offshoring Potential and Employment Dynamics

Boockmann, bernhard - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014

This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....

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