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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576
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Venture capital investment and labor market performance : new empirical evidence for OECD countries
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Schaal, Andreas (contributor) - 2004
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540743
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Offshoring and labour market reforms : modelling the German experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - 2015
explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498540
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How do automation and offshorability influence unemployment duration and subsequent job quality?
Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018
the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895786
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Employment dynamics and business relocation : new evidence from the national establishment time series
Neumark, David (contributor); Zhang, Junfu (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business establishment relocations that can contribute to job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003248655
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An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124754
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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, … - 2011
important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232294
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The labor market consequences of adverse financial shocks
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R. - 2012
The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor market volatility and Okun's elasticity over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613676
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631462