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Outsourcing, occupational restructuring, and employee well-being: Is there a silver lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - 2012
This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …
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Offshoring sector in Poland
Katarzyna, Budzyńska - 2014
Companies across industries gain the competitive advantage by outsourcing and offshoring. Developing countries are … becoming the attractive locations for the BPO/SSC enterprises. The article reviews the definition of outsourcing and offshoring … literature on outsourcing and offshoring. The article presents a preliminary analysis of offshoring sector in Poland. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011974
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Outsourcing and employment : a decomposition approach
Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - 2008
In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392237
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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
, but not necessarily formal-to-informal outsourcing, and, in response, the developed nation wage can fall. Productivity … improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242847
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Understanding the decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Houseman, Susan N. - 2018 - Revised June 2018
U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many economists and other analysts - pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output growth has largely kept pace with private sector real...
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Outsourcing, offshoring and innovation : evidence from firmlevel data for emerging economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - 2013
It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213481
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International Outsourcing and Labour with Sector-specific Human Capital
Kratena, Kurt - 2006
This paper attempts to quantify the impact of outsourcing on production patterns and the labour market in a two …-sector specific-factors model with skilled labour (specific factor) and unskilled labour (mobile factor). Outsourcing can be compared … sector indicate significant adjustment costs, whereas with outsourcing an outcome of rising wage rates for skilled labour in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435214
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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: How important is ICT?
Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - 2005
This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293025
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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