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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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 … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders

Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...

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Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

New growth models consider the role of technology in production. The link between product flows and information flows in international trade suggests investment in information technology as a leading sector in the developing countries growth. Several studies establish relationships between...

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Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide

Ono, Hiroshi; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study examines the extent and causes of inequalities in information technology (IT) ownership and use between natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The results indicate that, during the period 1997-2003, immigrants were significantly less likely to...

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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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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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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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