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Variation in labour skills and offshoring acrosstime zones

Prasad, Alaka Shree; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021

The paper extends Dei (2010) to check the role of time zone difference on offshoring of service tasks when the quality … time. The problem of the service producers is to choose between domestic production and offshoring. Domestic production … employs high-quality skilled labours but the time management is inefficient. On the other hand, offshoring to a non …

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Foreign competition, skill premium, and product quality : impact of Chinese competition on Mexican plants

Thi Hang Banh; Caselli, Mauro - 2022

This paper analyses the effect of rising competition from Chinese exports on the skill premium of Mexican plants. Using detailed product-plant-level production data from Mexico and bilateral product-level trade data for 1994-2007, we provide evidence that Mexican plants reduce their skill...

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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers

Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2020

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …

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Immigrant employment and the contract enforcement costs of offshoring

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Karpaty, Patrik; Kneller, Richard; … - 2022 - This draft: February 2022

Offshoring continues to be an important dimension of firms' internationalization choices. However, offshoring also … develop a heterogeneous firm framework with immigrants and offshoring costs, including technology leakage. In the model … about the characteristics of employees, manufacturing firms and their bilateral offshoring. Our results support the …

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Digital mobility of financial capital across different time zones, factor prices and sectoral composition

Mandal, Biswajit - 2024 - Preliminary draft

In this paper I make an effort to formalize the possibility of transfer of financial capital across time zones to exploit the benefit of day night mismatch between two countries. The major precondition for such transaction is the completion of production, buying and selling of the product in...

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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...

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Collateral damage? : labour market effects of competing with China - at home and abroad

Cabral, Sónia; Martins, Pedro S.; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2020

The increasing range and quality of China's exports is a major development internationally with potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct labour market effects of imports from China studied in previous research, we also measure the indirect effects stemming from...

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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018

Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...

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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...

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Who are afraid of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence and robots? : evidence from a survey

Morikawa, Masayuki - 2017

This study, using original survey data of 10,000 individuals, analyzes the possible impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics on employment. The first interest of this study is to ascertain, from the viewpoint of workers, what types of worker characteristics are associated with the...

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