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Integrated sectors - diversified earnings : the (missing) impact of offshoring on wages and wage convergence in the EU27
Parteka, Aleksandra; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2014 - This version - 16 October 2014 (revised)
This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … outsourcing/offshoring indices based on input-output data (World Input Output Database, April 2012 release). Two-way relations … place, but international outsourcing plays a negligible role in wage equalization. Moreover, even though regression results …
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The effects of offshoring to low-wage countries on domestic wages : a worldwide industrial analysis
Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna; Parteka, Aleksandra - 2016 - This version (revised): 06 June 2016
This paper extends the literature on the implications of offshoring for labour markets by investigating its effect on … international trade in manufacturing inputs. Being particularly interested in the wage effects of offshoring to low wage countries … (LWC), we employ precise LWC classifications (varying across industries and time) to decompose overall offshoring by source …
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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801809
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New technologies adoption and diffusion patterns in developing countries : an empirical study for the period 2000-2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
In recent years, enormous changes are noted worldwide when broad adoption of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). These unique technologies – often perceived as economic development incentives – have a great ability to spread at high pace and low cost in world countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011801822
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Does technology adoption matter for economic development? : an empirical evidence for Latin American countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
Extraordinary spread of new information and communication (ICTs) technologies has been recognized worldwide. ICTs are broadly perceived as tools facilitating economic growth and development, especially in economically backward countries. They are relatively easy and cheap to adopt, require...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802107
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ICTs diffusion trajectories and economic development : an empirical evidence for 46 developing countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2013
In economic theory, technology is treated as crucial factor contributing significantly to economic development. In seminal works of Schumpeter [1934, 1947], Baumol [1986], Gerschenkron [1962] or Abramovitz [1986], the emphasis on the role of technological progress in process of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802112
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Reshaping financial systems : new technologies and financial innovations - evidence from the United States, Mexico and Brazil
Lechman, Ewa; Marszk, Adam - 2014
The paper unveils whether ICT diffusion determines development of financial innovation in emerging economies. Particularly, we examine the impact of ICT adoption on changing values of exchange traded funds in Brazil and Mexico, comparing it to the United States as reference country (benchmark)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802118
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The impact of ICTs on women's economic empowerment
Nikulin, Dagmara - 2016
It is widely argued that ICTs enable the inclusion of low-skilled and traditionally marginalized groups, such as women, people with disabilities, and workers at the base of the pyramid (BoP), in the labor market. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of female participation in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802310
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Automation and reallocation : the lasting legacy of COVID-19 in Canada
Blit, Joel - 2020
Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately lost. COVID-19 is likely to have a similar impact,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285610
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A comparative analysis of information technology outsourcing by state governments
Graham, Mary E. - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000924769