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equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration …
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We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …
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Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage …
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) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …
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We set up a general equilibrium model, in which offshoring to a low-wage country can lead to job polarisation in the … pay wages that are positively linked to their profits by a rent-sharing mechanism. Offshoring involves fixed and task … variable offshoring costs. A reduction in those variable costs increases offshoring at the intensive and at the extensive …
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of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring …
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-- with labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation … of jobs, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and … competition effect. The key parameters determining the impact of offshoring on reallocation of jobs at various margins as well as …
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I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among … medium- and low-skilled ones. Within each skill group, service offshoring penalizes tradeable occupations and tends to …
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-paying jobs are rationed due to oligopolistic market structures, insider-oriented unions and international offshoring. In this … increasing share of lower-wage workers. However, as the tax reform involves an increase in the offshoring intensity, which may …
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We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information
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