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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms
Kovak, Brian - 2017
We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring …
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Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France, and Belgium
Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - 2021
Laws in most Western European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...
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The Effect of Job Security Regulations on Labor Market Flexibility : Evidence from the Colombian Labor Market Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2021
Job security provisions are widely believed to reduce dismissals and hiring. In addition, in developing countries job security is believed to reduce compliance with labor regulations and to increase informal activity. Reductions in dismissal costs are, thus, often advocated as a way to increase...
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We Can Work it Out - the Globalisation of Ict-Enabled Services
van Welsum, Desiree - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However …
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International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms
Baldwin, Richard - 2011
possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by …
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Overseas Assembly and Country Sourcing Choices
Swenson, Deborah L. - 2021
This paper studies the cross-country pattern of U.S. overseas assembly activities between 1980 and 2000 to examine how outsourcing decisions are affected by changes in country and competitor costs. A number of interesting regularities emerge. When a country's costs rise, the share of U.S....
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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity
Cette, Gilbert - 2016
On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...
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Costly Labor Adjustment : General Equilibrium Effects of China's Employment Regulations
Cooper, Russell - 2013
This paper studies the employment, productivity and welfare implications of new Chinese labor regulations intended to protect workers' employment conditions. We estimate a general equilibrium model of costly labor adjustment from data prior to the policy. Using the estimated parameters, we study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077658
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Exporting Pollution : Where Do Multinational Firms Emit Co<Sub>2</Sub>?
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2018
Despite widespread awareness of the detrimental impact of CO<sub>2</sub> pollution on the world climate, countries vary widely in how they design and enforce environmental laws. Using novel microdata about multinational firms' CO<sub>2</sub> emissions across countries, we document that firms headquartered in...
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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment
Desai, Mihir A.; Foley, C. Fritz; Hines Jr., James R. - 2021
This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used...
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