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Female Labor Supply : Why is the US Falling Behind?

Blau, Francine D. - 2013

other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …

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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States

Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009

I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...

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The spillover effect of services offshoring on local labour markets

Magli, Martina - 2022

I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages … across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring …, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring …

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

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Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data

Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

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