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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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foreign direct investment (FDI) and international outsourcing. We find that stronger IPR protection in the South raises the … extent of outsourcing and reduces the extent of FDI. This raises the proportion of Southerners being unskilled and mitigates …
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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 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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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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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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assumption that an expanding export in other business and ICT services has been associated with offshoring services in the six … additional factors favouring nearshoring (as in CEE locations) over offshoring (e.g. India) and lists several factors besides …
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offshoring of Canadian jobs by U.S. MNCs: those that increase (shrink) employment in Canada tend to exhibit the same pattern …
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