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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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The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...
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Morocco has made offshoring the number one economic development priority within its “Emergence” program. The government …
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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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lower overall labour costs. On the back of this setup follows an analysis of the macroeconomic implications of offshoring in … the short and long run. Offshoring through vertical FDI is found to lead to a falling wage share and a simultaneously … structural change implied by offshoring leads to lower rates of capital accumulation and employment in the North relative to the …
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Offshoring is an important aspect of firms' internationalization. However, offshoring comes at a cost, especially where … information or trust is lacking. Immigrant employees could reduce such offshoring costs through their knowledge of their former …-2007. Our results support the hypothesis that immigrant employees spur offshoring activities by firms through lower offshoring …
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Multinational enterprises (MNE) have been highly instrumental in the processes leading to the increased fragmentation of production within global value chains. We examine the relationship between relative demands for skills, non-routine or non-offshorable tasks in Swedish MNE parents (onshore)...
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the association between offshoring within Swedish MNEs and changes their parent employment at regional level (in local …-routine) in the parent. Our results reveal large spatial heterogeneities in the relationships between MNE offshoring and onshore … employment in various regions. The results suggest that MNE offshoring might be a factor contributing to diverging onshore …
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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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