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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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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 … the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in Washington, D.C., we report correlations between U.S. multinational employment at …
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.e., managers, professionals and experts), especially when offshoring involves closer connections to other developed countries. …
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey …, 1981 to 2008. A traditional cross-country analysis suggests that only the social dimension of globalization, the worldwide … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …
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In the aftermath of globalization it is now, perhaps, industry alone – especially small scale industry – that holds the … pass – key to employment and economic progress, which accounts for the high priority assigned to the growth and development … India have put the whole SSI sector into hot water. This is purely because of policy of liberalization and Globalization put …
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Globalization, liberalization, technological development, infrastructure development and WTO etc. are ‘contexts’, which …
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globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110’000 persons derived from five waves of … repeated cross-sections from the World Values Survey, 1981 to 2008. I conjecture that informational globalization affects … societal values and perceived economic opportunities, while economic globalization impacts actual economic opportunities. A …
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since the introduction of globalisation process in terms of employment, labour absorption and the labour market conditions … in India. It is seen that the overall growth rate of the organised sector employment maintained its declining trend from … the period 1977-78 to 1999-2000. The growth rate of the public sector employment declined more than the private sector …
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