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other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …
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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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through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … that even if a unilateral tax by the US raises its employment, this may turn around in a Nash policy equilibrium, where the … in recent years) and increased product differentiation tend to worsen the employment effects of the outsourcing tax. The …
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of employment probabilities from offshoring of services inputs only, although, in contrast to manufacturing industries …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and …
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decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring …
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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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therefore, in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, a firm can increase its domestic employment through offshoring. Also, such a …In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the …
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We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model … offshoring, namely, an increase of the unemployment benefits and the flexibilization of the labor market. Our results suggest … unemployment benefits to compensate for the negative welfare effects of offshoring, it would only take a small reduction in the …
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The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are … by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories … in developing countries? Using a parsimonious two-country model of offshoring we find very nuanced results. These include …
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We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
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