untersucht empirisch die Auswirkungen von Offshoring auf Arbeiterflüsse in Deutschland. Während Offshoring die Stabilität von … Dienstleistungssektor. Die Effekte von Offshoring hängen ferner stark vom Alter und der Bildung des einzelnen Arbeitnehmers ab. … rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a …

and off-shoring often supported by culture change programmes. These changes have resulted in work intensification, have … not delivered productivity gains and have had a negative effect on managers' well-being. The effects of change were … perceived differently by directors and other managers. Despite continuous cost reduction, productivity in the UK remains below …

and substantial increase in the outsourcing and offshoring of ICT development, maintenance and support contracts. Each and …

impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than …

Outsourcing and offshoring are changing the nature of the firm, and producing unprecedented international relocation of … where and why?’ to explain the outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon. We present a novel modelling approach to represent a firm … outsourcing and offshoring to the organization of the firm, and offer propositions that frame our economic modelling approach. We …

workers in the new era of globalization.In the first essay, I assume firm heterogeneity in productivity to allow firms to …

This dissertation consists of three essays in Macroeconomics. The first essay assesses the impact of offshoring on … aggregate productivity and on labour market outcomes by developing a dynamic general equilibrium model in which workers acquire … increased offshoring are found to be substantial even after taking into account losses in specific human capital for workers in …

, Offshoring, and Offshore-Outsourcing. Following this conceptualization, primary data from 830 information technology and product … that project organization types that span country boundaries (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) outperform Collocated … (Offshoring and Offshore-Outsourcing) compared to all types of domestic project organizations (Collocated Insourcing, Distributed …