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Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a large proportion of its labor force remains employed in the informal sector. Since one of the main objectives of the maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we...
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offshoring are comparable. Finally, while multinationals manage their workforce more flexibly than domestic firms, they have …
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higher share of temporary workers appears to reduce the likelihood of future offshoring. However, once reverse causality and …
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This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large … offshoring trends at the sector level. Importantly, we distinguish between transitory and permanent shocks to individual income …-insurable. It thus has a particular relevance for individual welfare. Our findings suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent …
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This paper reviews the existing empirical literature on the effects of offshoring and foreign activities of … of the fear that material offshoring worsens wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers; on the contrary …, results are still too ambiguous to support concerns that material offshoring raises the elasticity of unskilled labor demand …
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We examine the employment effects of international outsourcing by using firm-level data from the Finnish manufacturing sector. A major advantage of our data is that outsourcing is defined based on firms’ actual use of intermediate inputs from foreign trade statistics. The estimates show that...
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Critics of globalization claim that firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor and lower labor standards to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reports stylized facts on the activities of U.S. multinationals at home and abroad for the...
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by the cost of task trade. Comparing orders of magnitude we conclude that offshoring between similar countries only has a … small positive effect on the managerial wage premium, compared to offshoring between countries with a different relative …
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National concerns are sometimes raised against offshoring of economic activities to other countries. While most of the … the Swedish manufacturing sector to analyze how offshoring impacts domestic R&D and how these effects vary with respect to … target region and type of firm. The results suggest that offshoring of production alter a firm’s investments in R&D in Sweden …
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National concerns are sometimes raised against offshoring of economic activities to other countries. While most of the … the Swedish manufacturing sector to analyze how offshoring impacts domestic R&D and how these effects vary with respect to … target region and type of firm. The results suggest that offshoring of production alter a firm’s investments in R&D in Sweden …
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