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Outsourcing potentials and international tradability of jobs : evidence from German micro-level data
Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - 2013
between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …
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Offshoring and outsourcing potentials of jobs : evidence from German micro-level data
Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - 2014
Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing … measure both the offshoring potentials (cross-country geographical relocation) and the outsourcing potentials (organisational …
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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The impact of trade and technology on skills in Viet Nam
Poole, Jennifer P.; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; … - 2017
Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large efficiency gains for a country. However, there is also concern that lower-skilled workers are increasingly being replaced by technology and that more globalized markets are harming...
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Offshoring and outsourcing potentials : evidence from German micro-level data
Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 40 (2017) 9, pp. 1775-1806
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Trade in tasks : revisiting the wage and employment effects of offshoring
Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2019
We revisit Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) famous result, that under certain conditions offshoring of low … Rybczynski-type reallocation of factors to absorb offshoring-induced job displacement is ruled out. We allow for simultaneous … offshoring of both skilled and unskilled labor, and we derive new results on the role of factor-bias in offshoring, identifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034615
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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2019
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in 2001-2014 period. China has become one of the major foreign suppliers of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140022
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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432986