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productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996)...
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …
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Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …
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We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …
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