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Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market Imperfections

Bonfatti, Roberto; Ghatak, Maitreesh - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics; London … - 2010

An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries.This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase therelative return of the...

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Interkulturelle Problemfelder beim Offshoring von IT-Dienstleistungennach China und Indien sowie Lösungsansätze aus der Unternehmenspraxis

Hammes, Daniel; Schumann, Jan H.; Steinbach, Andreas; … - Technische Universität <München> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2007

Niedriglohnländer gerecht zuwerden. So verspricht man sich vom sogenannten Offshoring-Konzept Qualitätssteigerungen,die Erschließung …

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Control of Relational Risk in Offshore Accounting and Finance Outsourcing: Case Evidence from UK and India

Nicholson, Brian; Aman, Aini - Manchester Business School - 2008

Many companies in USA and Western Europe are taking advantage of developments ininformation technology and outsourcing parts of the accounting process to vendors in otherparts of the world. Offshore outsourcing of accounting presents some unique risks, controlproblems and challenges. In this...

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Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Using Occupational Licensing as a Shifter of Offshoring Costs

Criscuolo, Chiara; Garicano, Luis - London School of Economics and Political Science

Antràs, Luis Garicano and EstebanRossi-Hansberg, 2006) and lower offshoring-costtasks (Gene Grossman and Esteban Rossi …

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Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs

Antràs, Pol; Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - Harvard University <Cambridge, Mass.>; University …; … - 2006

host-country management skills (middlemanagement) in bringing about the emergence of international offshoring. Byshielding … positive effect of middle skills on offshoring is weaker, the moreadvanced are communication technologies in the host country …

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OFFSHORING IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Antràs, Pol; Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of workand the structure of wages? To study this question, we propose a theory of theassignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilledagents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

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Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure

Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed tochanges in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current PopulationSurvey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained bychanges in wage setting between and...

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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI:Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …

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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce:How Services Facilitate Firms’ International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services andthe decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empiricalanalysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions ofheterogeneous...

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Offshoring and Firm Performance:Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

turns out that, compared tonon-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and hada …, and this points to self-selection of “better” firms into offshoring.This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from theliterature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …

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