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offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …
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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...
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materials to sales. Inaddition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: Agreater …
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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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We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour … sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and wages?We show …
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We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and …
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We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing inthe firm’s expectation of …
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-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree oftax progression by …
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abroad, and where outsourcing issubstitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount ofresources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …
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