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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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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021

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The Influence of Wages on Parents' Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom

Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006

We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner's wages on parents' provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find that increases in partners' wages increase women's...

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Mental Health and Labour Market Participation : Evidence from IV Panel Data Models

Frijters, Paul - 2010

A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics that might jointly determine health and labour...

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The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom

Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006

We use time-diary data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys and the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Study to estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations...

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