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between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …
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less likely to outsource or offshore parts of their production processes if their outsourcing and offshoring potential is …This paper analyses the link between offshoring in German plants and the offshoring potential of their employees. We … use information on the offshoring potential of jobs from representative task data and merge it with linked employer …
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between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …
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Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing … measure both the offshoring potentials (cross-country geographical relocation) and the outsourcing potentials (organisational …
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The accelerated overseas expansion of multinational retailers (MRs) over the last decade transformed these companies into major regional and global actors. In this paper we question how MRs arriving in foreign markets affect the export performance of local firms. We develop a theoretical...
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between intra-firm trade and outsourcing given heterogeneity at the product-(complexity), firm-(productivity) and country …
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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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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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In this paper we claim that distance alone is a poor proxy for international transport costs in empirical studies. We model a manufacturing and a transport sector and let the level of manufacturing exports determine the demand for transport services. Above a particular trade level, transport...
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determinants of service offshoring along the extensive and intensive margins. In particular, we evaluate how internal frictions in …-resilience of service trade stems from increased pressures to save on variable costs through offshoring and from its lower …
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