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Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing … measure both the offshoring potentials (cross-country geographical relocation) and the outsourcing potentials (organisational …
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between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …
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Skill-biased technical change and trade integration have both been indicated to be the cause of the wide increase in wage inequality in U.S. in the last 50 years. This paper shows in a simple uni�ed framework why both mechanisms can reproduce the observed pattern of wage dispersion....
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Traditional Heckscher-Ohlin reasoning predicts that in open economies sector bias of technical change determines wages and may induce firms to lower skill ratios. Skill bias plays a minor role – at best. The paper discusses sufficient conditions for skill bias of ICT nevertheless to be a major...
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workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …
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that the fractions of final-good producers that pursue either vertical integration, offshoring, or exporting are all …. At the same time, one observes firms that shift away from either vertical integration, offshoring, or exporting. Further …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … sector in Germany. This is almost exclusively driven by the rise of Eastern Europe, not by China. We also conduct an analysis …
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This paper looks inside the firm and investigates how trade alters the matching of worker-specific abilities and task-specific skill requirements. The outcome of this matching depends on how firms organize their recruitment process and how much they invest into the screening of applicants. In...
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The theoretical claim that ethnic networks encourage trade has found broad empirical support in the literature on migration, business networks and international trade. Ethnic networks matter for the exporting firm, as they exhibit the potential to lower fixed and variable cost of exporting. This...
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