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This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …
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This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …
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of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account : offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring … depends on the offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment …, whereas in-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing …
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Morocco has made offshoring the number one economic development priority within its “Emergence” program. The government …
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This study analyses the extent and motives of outsourcing and offshoring. We find that in early 2000, 10, 000 23, 000 …&D jobs have been relocated from Finland. Outsourcing is most commonly observed in ser-vice-related functions, but also … flexibility increases. In terms of R&D outsourcing, attempts to acquire knowledge, increase flexibility and reduce costs are …
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concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest …. Service offshoring is still only a minor part of the international economic competition that the U.S. faces. Service … offshoring appears to have been relatively intense for IT occupations, but the employment and wage trends in those occupations …
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of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover …This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall … effects. In the manufacturing sector, especially in-house offshoring of R&D has a significant negative impact on the plan to …
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The present volume aims to provide a comprehensive and systemic overview of the challenges that going global poses to knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go global, i.e. which are the drivers that push...
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foreign firms’ decision to export much of their local production. At the same time, the offshoring process remains more or …
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