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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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In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
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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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"offshoring", is an important element of such a (global in scale) process of structural change having important implications for … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … offshoring industries and types of professional groups affected by offshoring. Results provide a rather heterogeneous picture of …
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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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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous in terms of offshoring costs, or they may …
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In this paper, we develop a two-sector general equilibrium trade model which includes offshoring, sequential production … technological change affect equilibrium offshoring patterns. We show that, against common belief, a reduction in trade costs lowers … the range of tasks offshored even though the aggregate volume of offshoring may increase. …
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"offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in … offshoring on domestic labor demand and wages. The second section of the paper presents offshoring trends and discusses the … results of the econometric analysis. Results suggest that offshoring has a general negative impact on employment and wages …
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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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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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