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International outsourcing and labour demand: Evidence from Finnish firm-level data
Böckerman, Petri; Riihimäki, Elisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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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US multinational activity abroad and US jobs: substitutes or complements?
Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret S.; Null, Clair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651381
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Future Bangalores? The increasing role of Central and Eastern Europe in the global services offshoring market: evidence from trade statistics
Gál, Zoltán - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
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 SERVICE JOBS
Demiroglu, Ufuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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 Offshoring Strategies of US Multinational Corporations Operating in Canada
Feinberg, Susan; Keane, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
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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Impact of Trade on Labour Productivity and Wage Inequality in India
Hashim, Danish; Banga, Rashmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Abstract: The paper empirically estimates the impact of trade on labour productivity and wage inequality between skilled (white collar) and unskilled (blue collar) labour in Indian manufacturing. Analysis is undertaken using dynamic panel data estimations (GMM) for 58 manufacturing industries...
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Labor markets, foregin investment and trade policy reform
Harrison, Ann; Revenga, Ana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
This chapter reviews the available evidence on the linkages between trade reform, labor markets, and FDI. We begin by drawing on studies of sixteen countries that underwent trade reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. These sixteen countries were chosen because of their inclusion in the United Nations...
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Do foreign-owned firms pay more?
Harrison, Ann E.; Scorse, Jason - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper uses Indonesian data to analyze the impact of foreign ownership on wages. After controlling for worker and firm characteristics, we find that foreign firms pay a wage premium, which is larger for skilled relative to unskilled workers.
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Choosing between foreign investment and subcontracting: Strategies of Italian firms in Romania
Tattara, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Vertical disintegration in most industries and the globalization of markets has led to significant changes in the pattern of international division of labour among manufacturing firms. At the same time increased competition from low cost producers, exchange rate constraints, the opening up of...
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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