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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 …
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