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In this study, we predict a pattern of offshoring and reshoring over the course of economic development. We achieve … this, by extending Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) model of offshoring in a simple way by assuming that offshoring … country has two opposing effects on offshoring. On the one hand, it increases the wage rate of workers rendering offshoring …
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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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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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foreign firms’ decision to export much of their local production. At the same time, the offshoring process remains more or …
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First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both materials and services offshoring. The results … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of …
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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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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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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...
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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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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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