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International Outsourcing and the Productivity of Low-skilled Labour in the EU
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001
This paper presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of low …-skilled workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real … structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 3.3% in the real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435076
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International Outsourcing and the Skill-Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe
Egger, Peter; Stehrer, Robert - 2001
The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of skill-specific real wage bills in manufacturing of three Central and East European countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic). Both intermediate goods exports and imports of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435084
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Market Concentration and International Outsourcing
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001
This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot … competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435086