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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216489
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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325054
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144397
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...
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