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We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …
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We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a taskassignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …
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This book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the short- and medium run impacts of technological advances on the employment and wages of workers which differ in their earned educational degree. Furthermore, by introducing labor market frictions and wage setting institutions the...
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The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...
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offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …
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