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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 … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …

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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...

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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021

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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing

Henneberger, Fred - 2009

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variability of compensation are higher at these...

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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage Over the Medium-Term

Dolton, Peter - 2010

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...

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The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Miranda, Alfonso - 2013

We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...

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Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects : Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey

Clark, Kenneth - 2006

We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and nonwhite male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from those who arrived to complete their education. Diverse...

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Scaring or Scarring? Labour Market Effects of Criminal Victimisation

Bindler, Anna - 2019

Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and labour market outcomes from the Netherlands to overcome data restrictions previously met in the literature and estimate event-study designs to...

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Trade and Worker Deskilling

Dhingra, Swati - 2019

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...

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What Do We Really Know About the Employment Effects of the Uk's National Minimum Wage?

Brewer, Mike - 2019

A substantial body of research on the UK's National Minimum Wage (NMW) has concluded that the the NMW has not had a detrimental effect on employment. This research has directly influenced, through the Low Pay Commission, the conduct of policy, including the subsequent introduction of the...

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