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Offshoring, Firm Performance and Establishment-Level Employment: Identifying Productivity and Downsizing Effects
Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M; Weder di Mauro, Beatrice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper examines the channels through which offshoring affects employment in a representative sample of German … establishments, using a difference-in-differences matching approach. Offshoring establishments are identified by an increase in the … share of foreign to total inputs. We find that an average offshoring establishment has higher employment, higher …
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International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964417
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
imports but German sector-level outcomes exhibit some covariation consistent with faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to …
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Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational … enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated … not alter the direction of the relationship. We find offshoring to predict between 10 and 15 percent of observed changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964424
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Unionisation and Foreign Direct Investment
Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper investigates the effects of different degrees of wage setting centralisation on (1) the incentive of a MNE to locate in a host country, (2) the optimal level of investment it decides to commit to its foreign operation, and (3) the host country's welfare. Decentralised and centralised...
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Importing Jobs or Exporting Firms? A Close Look at the Labour Market Implications of Italy's Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Flows
Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M; Galeotti, Marzio; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Markusen, James R.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both theoretical micro-foundations and empirical evidence for this are limited. We develop a heterogeneous-firm model in which ex-ante identical workers learn from their employers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792490
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The arrival of cheap goods: Measuring the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic prices
Auer, Raphael; Fischer, Andreas M; Kropf, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
What is the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic producer prices? In a panel covering 23 (2 digit) NACE manufacturing sectors from 1995 to 2008, instrumental variable estimations predict that when Chinese imports capture a 1% increase in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by...
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Heterogeneous firms or heterogeneous workers? Implications for the exporter premium and the impact of labor reallocation on productivity
Irarrazabal, Alfonso; Moxnes, Andreas; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced out, and labor is reallocated towards the best performing firms. But the positive intra-industry reallocation effects rely on the stark assumption that exporters’ superior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509468
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France and the CEECs: Adjusting to Another Enlargement
Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper considers the effects of trade expansion between the EU and the Central and East European Countries (CEECs) on France. Taking a political-economy perspective, we attempt to detect potential demand for protection at the sectoral and regional level. Recent aggregate figures for trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123752