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First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of … analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …
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This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects … are here considered as a result of both the offshoring of production (or materials) and services. My main finding is that … the net amount of jobs lost to offshoring during the past two and a half decades is negligible, as it was the role of …
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to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reports stylized facts on the … the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in Washington, D.C., we report correlations between U.S. multinational employment at …-income countries there is a positive correlation between jobs at home and abroad, suggesting that foreign employment of U …
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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with data for Argentina and the U.S.A. circa 1970. …
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incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We �find that if offshoring is present … change in the North. This fi�nding highlights the different implications of offshoring and conventional trade on innovation …. Furthermore, we �find that an increase in the Southern stock of capital reduces offshoring and also leads to skill …
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strategies and now view the whole of Europe as a single fully integrated space. Using data on employment, production, trade and …. The CEECs’ growth is particularly impressive when consideration is given to employment, a variable largely driven by … foreign firms’ decision to export much of their local production. At the same time, the offshoring process remains more or …
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Offshoring has lately received wide attention. Its potential effects, mainly to be materialized in employment and … beliefs, our data reveal that offshoring is not exclusive of large developed economies. Further, we highlight the continuing … prominence of the manufacturing over the services sector, and observe that while services offshoring is on the rise, it still …
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We examine the employment effects of international outsourcing by using firm-level data from the Finnish manufacturing … not reduce employment nor have an effect on the share of low-skilled workers. …
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In the ongoing discussion about offshoring in the computer and data-processing industries, the 2006 ACM report … Globalization and Offshoring of Software addressed job shifts due to globalization in the software industry. But jobs represent only …) supplies the other half, the capital complement. Offshoring IP always accompanies offshoring jobs and, while less visible, may …
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