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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519443
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …-level data on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540814
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Back to normal? The future of global production networks after the crisis.
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495226
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Do labour market institutions matter?: Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries.
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495228
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Back to normal?: The future of global production networks.
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2009
It is neither likely nor desirable for central banks to exit from unconventional monetary policies in the near future. However, it is important that central banks develop an exit strategy, evaluate the merits of new and old monetary policy tools and communicate with the public so as to maintain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495245
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529132
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Outsourcing and Skill Imports: Foreign High-Skilled Workers on H-1B and L-1 Visas in the United States
Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005
This working paper looks in detail at the H-1B and L-1 visa programs for temporary employment in the United States. Based on official data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the US Department of State, H-1B and L-1 visa issuance rapidly increased in the late 1990s, followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005035517
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2007
equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181377
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Outsourcing and Offshoring: Pushing the European Model Over the Hill, Rather Than Off the Cliff!
Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005
Offshoring and offshore outsourcing is increasingly affecting the EU-15, both in the manufacturing and services sectors … limited extent of perhaps up to 2 percent of the workforce as affected. Offshoring and offshore outsourcing, similar to other … offshoring and offshore outsourcing, if they go ahead and implement the EU Lisbon Agenda with respect to labor market reforms and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627716
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015466