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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014
faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099759
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
imports but German sector-level outcomes exhibit some covariation consistent with faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084694
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Offshoring and the skill composition of employment in the Italian manufacturing industries
Falzoni, Anna M.; Tajoli, Lucia - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2008
phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input …In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this …-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087121
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Offshoring to High and Low Income Countries and the Labour Demand. Evidence from Italian Firms
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2010
means of System GMM allowing for the endogeneity of our right hand side regressors, especially our offshoring measures. Our … results bear a negative offshoring effect which is attributable exclusively to imports of intermediates from low income … for imports from high income countries. These findings are robust to the different measures of offshoring and to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725732
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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands
Akcomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
spatial level our approach explains a substantial part of the increase in offshoring during this period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712300
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Offshoring and Labour Market Inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886901
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The impact of trade on employment in Colombian
LUNA, Yezid HERNÁNDEZ - DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PLANEACIÓN - 2011
This article analyses the impact of imports and exports, from and towards the most important Colombiantrade partners (United States, European Union, China, Andean Community of Nations, Venezuela, Brazil andMexico), on employment in the manufacturing sector during 2000 ‐ 2007. We use the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391767
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“Task Trade and its determinants in Spain: a national and regional analysis”
García, José Ramón; Manca, Fabio; Suriñach, Jordi - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2014
by task trade/offshoring and that this is likely to benefit Spanish economy (and the performance of specific regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756002
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“Task Trade and its determinants in Spain: a national and regional analysis”
García, José Ramón; Manca, Fabio; Suriñach, Jordi - Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), … - 2014
by task trade/offshoring and that this is likely to benefit Spanish economy (and the performance of specific regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757613
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Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational … enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated … not alter the direction of the relationship. We find offshoring to predict between 10 and 15 percent of observed changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964424