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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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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141699
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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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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148352
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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2021
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318053
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834526
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Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
Görg, Holger - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959060
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How Prevalent is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
Elsby, Michael - 2019
For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage rates cannot be cut. Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been discounted on the ground that the measurement of frequent wage cuts might be an artifact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870447
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001874
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Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing : International Longitudinal Evidence
Salvatori, Andrea - 2010
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148289