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This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …
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It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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Morocco has made offshoring the number one economic development priority within its “Emergence” program. The government …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …-level data on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but …
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concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest …. Service offshoring is still only a minor part of the international economic competition that the U.S. faces. Service … offshoring appears to have been relatively intense for IT occupations, but the employment and wage trends in those occupations …
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The present volume aims to provide a comprehensive and systemic overview of the challenges that going global poses to knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go global, i.e. which are the drivers that push...
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not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …
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foreign firms’ decision to export much of their local production. At the same time, the offshoring process remains more or …
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We examine the employment effects of international outsourcing by using firm-level data from the Finnish manufacturing … sector. A major advantage of our data is that outsourcing is defined based on firms’ actual use of intermediate inputs from … foreign trade statistics. The estimates show that intensive outsourcing (more than two times the 2-digit industry median) does …
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Critics of globalization claim that firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor and lower labor standards to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reports stylized facts on the activities of U.S. multinationals at home and abroad for the...
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