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Sectoral value added prices, TFP growth, and the low-skilled wage in high-income countries

Lücke, Matthias - 1999

This econometric analysis investigates the impact of changes in sectoral valueadded prices and total factor productivity (TFP) on the equilibrium relative wage of low-skilled workers in eleven high-income countries. The key finding is that TFP growth mandated an increase in the unskilled wage,...

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The dynamic effects of public capital : VAR evidence for 22 OECD countries

Kamps, Christophe (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Services offshoring and wages : evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 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 ofsshoring 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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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 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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Outsourcing motives, location choice and labour market implications : an empirical analysis for European countries

Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to assess the labour market repercussions at home. Employing Tobit models we differentiate between job losses as well as job creation for high and low skilled employees at the...

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Domestic repercussions of different types of FDI : firm-level evidence for Taiwanese manufacturing

Liu, Wan-hsin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

It is widely feared that outward FDI gradually hollows out domestic manufacturing and displaces local workers. We address this concern by drawing on exceptionally informative firm-specific data on Taiwanese multinationals in manufacturing. In particular, we assess whether repercussions at home...

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Offshoring and labour market inequalities

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …

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The labor market effects of outsourcing parts and components : adverse Cournot competition

Hübler, Michael - 2009

regions. -- Offshoring ; outsourcing ; Cournot competition ; intermediate goods ; high-skilled ; low-skilled …

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws in the current...

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Offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and productivity : evidence for a number of European countries

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2012

The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have … not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on offshoring in Europe between 1995 and 2008 taking into account this …

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