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The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...
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lower overall labour costs. On the back of this setup follows an analysis of the macroeconomic implications of offshoring in … the short and long run. Offshoring through vertical FDI is found to lead to a falling wage share and a simultaneously … structural change implied by offshoring leads to lower rates of capital accumulation and employment in the North relative to the …
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Offshoring is an important aspect of firms' internationalization. However, offshoring comes at a cost, especially where … information or trust is lacking. Immigrant employees could reduce such offshoring costs through their knowledge of their former …-2007. Our results support the hypothesis that immigrant employees spur offshoring activities by firms through lower offshoring …
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Multinational enterprises (MNE) have been highly instrumental in the processes leading to the increased fragmentation of production within global value chains. We examine the relationship between relative demands for skills, non-routine or non-offshorable tasks in Swedish MNE parents (onshore)...
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the association between offshoring within Swedish MNEs and changes their parent employment at regional level (in local …-routine) in the parent. Our results reveal large spatial heterogeneities in the relationships between MNE offshoring and onshore … employment in various regions. The results suggest that MNE offshoring might be a factor contributing to diverging onshore …
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rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration, and we develop a three-country stochastic growth model to rationalize this … outcome. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects the middle-skill occupations but benefits the high …
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the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of offshoring on workers' job security using matched employer-employee data … from Sweden. For our observed period (1997-2011), while the share of firms engaged in offshoring fell during the period … from around 25% to 22%, offshoring per worker within offshoring firms almost doubled. We make use of this variation to …
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In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern. Recently, policymakers in several countries have set out to achieve reindustrialization. The servicification of firms is related to these concerns and aspirations. However,...
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