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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying … negative. Our evidence also shows that offshoring to high-wage countries stimulates the vertical mobility of employees in …
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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'Klin'-ing Up: Effects of Polish Tax Reforms on Those In and on Those Out
Morawski, Leszek; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. We show that when considered together the package of introduced reforms brought much greater reductions in the tax burden compared to a widely...
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Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model … offshoring, namely, an increase of the unemployment benefits and the flexibilization of the labor market. Our results suggest … unemployment benefits to compensate for the negative welfare effects of offshoring, it would only take a small reduction in the …
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Unconditional and Conditional Wage Polarization in Europe
Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional – on technology – wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe....
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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …
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Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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Offshoring and Productivity Revisited: A Time-Series Analysis
Agnese, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple …-series perspective. This framework is then used to assess the impact of offshoring on skill upgrading and the labor share. For both … should be interpreted with caution yet clearly suggest that offshoring can improve labor productivity in the Semiconductors …
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
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