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Major technological advances have recently spurred a new wave of offshoring in services, which used to be non … question, suggesting that efficiency gains from offshoring may counteract direct job losses, which leaves the predicted net … effect ambiguous. This paper investigates the employment effects of service offshoring in a newly combined and exceptionally …
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results of offshoring and its impact on jobs, adding new perspectives to the globalization debate. Globalization entails a …-way street. In 2002-05 more jobs were created as a result of offshoring of activities into eastern Denmark from companies outside … Denmark (i.e., inshored to Denmark) than were eliminated due to offshoring from companies in the Danish region. Overall, the …
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Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and conventional outsourcing decisions as a way to reduce employment. The results for a sample of 32 countries show the relevance of factors not considered previously in the literature. Firms that are below average in quality or...
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Offshoring—the transfer of an industrial activity abroad—has become a fact of life for business. But it is also … the potential loss of domestic jobs. This groundbreaking report provides new insights into the phenomenon of offshoring …. First, the report defines offshoring in detail, allowing readers to see the many ways that industrial activity—both in …
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