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Implications of firm heterogeneity for offshoring, wage and employment

Chen, Xi - 2018

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

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â€˜Monday will never be the same againâ€™: the transformation of employment and work in a public-private partnership

Smith, Andrew - In: Work, Employment & Society 26 (2012) 1, pp. 95-110

, together with the insourcing, outsourcing and the first ever offshoring of UK Government work to India. …

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The back office goes global: exploring connections and contradictions in shared service centres

Howcroft, Debra; Richardson, Helen - In: Work, Employment & Society 26 (2012) 1, pp. 111-127

This article explores a neglected aspect of IT-enabled service work: the back office. The fieldwork study reveals how back office service work has been identified as suitable for ongoing reorganization and reconfiguration as firms respond to the pressures of contemporary capitalism. The article...

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Firm efficiency and input market integration trade versus FDI

Imbruno, Michele - 2015

This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...

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Trade in intermediate producer services under imperfect competition

Islyami, Aidan - 2009

In this paper a stylized CGE model is constructed to study the impact of liberalization of barriers for foreign providers of intermediate producer services under imperfect competition on the welfare, the downstream industry output, the prices of the factors of production and the pattern of...

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Does outward foreign direct investment affect domestic real wages? : an investigation using French micro-data

Gazaniol, Alexandre; Laffineur, Catherine - 2015

This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...

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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks

Püschel, Julia - 2013

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …

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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …

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Productivity effects from inter-industry offshoring and inshoring : firm-level evidence from Belgium

Merlevede, Bruno; Theodorakopoulos, Angelos - 2016

In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms become more internationalized and therefore offshore (import intermediate inputs) and inshore (export final output for intermediate input usage) intensively. Chinaś accession...

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The next division of labour: work skills in Australian and Indian call centres

Russell, Bob; Thite, Mohan - In: Work, Employment & Society 22 (2008) 4, pp. 615-634

outsourcing of info-service work portends a new division of labour is addressed. Evidence is presented that the work conducted in … profiles in business process outsourcing give rise to contradictions that are specific to the Indian context. …

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