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Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing
Sørensen, Anders; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2003
employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272877
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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010
between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …. Outsourcing often correlates negatively with the demand for labor performing explicit and problem-solving tasks. It is mainly … uncorrelated or positively correlated with the demand for labor performing interactive tasks. The outsourcing-related results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281638
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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437014
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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260641
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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised box-cox function
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297715
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265995
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Job losses, outsourcing and relocation: empirical evidence using microdata
Artís, Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach, Jordi - 2007
Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268512
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269616
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International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2004
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277433
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International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingfdom
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277439