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Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2009
We analyze the relationship between o®shoring and the onshore workforce composition tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. O®shoring is associated with a statistically signi¯cant shift towards more non-routine and more interactive tasks, and with a shift towards highly educated workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619356
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Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - In: Journal of International Economics 90 (2013) 1, pp. 91-106
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 with a statistically significant shift towards more...
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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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
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084694
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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 with a statistically significant shift towards more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964424
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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 …-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on the general level of employment, and we don’t find any significant … relationship. Then, we examine the relationship between offshoring and employment composition by skills. Our results show that the …
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
Making use of an original data set we investigate the effects of imports of intermediates from high and low income countries on the conditional labour demand of a panel of Italian manufacturing firms. We estimate a dynamic panel data model by means of System GMM allowing for the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725732
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The Home Country Employment Effects of Internationalisation - A Literature Review
Kotiranta, Annu; Lundan, Sarianna; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of … conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment effects are modest, although there are likely to be notable … employment effects of outward foreign direct investment on the home country seem to indicate positive rather than substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700398
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Are U.S. White-Collar Really at Risk of Service Offshoring?
Crino, Rosario - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2006
This paper deals with recent concerns about potentially negative effects of service offshoring on U.S. white-collar workers. At this purpose, the paper uses highly disaggregated occupational data and develops a Flexible and Separable Translog model in which service offshoring is allowed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169687
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Skill-Biased Effects of Service Offshoring in Western Europe.
Crinò, Rosario - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2007
This paper studies the e¤ects of service offshoring on the skill composition of labor demand in Western Europe, using comparable data for nine economies during the 1990s. A short-run translog cost function allows derivation of demand elasticities for three labor inputs. Potential endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760939