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This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … effects of a membership in NAFTA, and a common colonial past on service offshoring patterns depend on the task content of the …
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First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …
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This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
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Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows … related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a … in parts and components. Our results bring evidence that bilateral trade related to offshoring activities across Europe …
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We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have … not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on offshoring in Europe between 1995 and 2008 taking into account this …
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This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...
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computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
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health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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