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of employment probabilities from offshoring of services inputs only, although, in contrast to manufacturing industries …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and …
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This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled employees. This effect is strongly driven by the manufacturing …
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The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have … not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on offshoring in Europe between 1995 and 2008 taking into account this …
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and to introduce new products and upgrade existing products. The effect of offshoring on R&D spending is significantly …
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The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production. Final production is located in western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a western (outsourcing) or eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing)....
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This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot competition in intermediate good production. Final production is located in Western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern...
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …-level data on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but …
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, we also report a 2-3 percent reduction in the level of materials offshoring following a switch to internet procurement …
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During the recent decades, multitasking has become a more and more common phenomenon at workplaces. Rather than specializing in a job task, workers perform bundles of tasks. Bundling occurs when tasks are complements. Using individual-level data about job tasks, we analyze which tasks are...
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independently of whether we consider the states’ overall economy or their manufacturing sector …
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