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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419780
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707335
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Automation, Offshoring and Employment Distribution in Western Europe
Working Paper Series, GATE; Maillard, Jocelyn - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of automation and offshoring on the dynamics of the occupational distribution of … types of workers, ICT capital, trade in final goods and endogenous offshoring. Fed with exogenous measures of ICT …-capital prices and trade costs, the model replicates key features of the data. It matches the observed dynamics of offshoring to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227696
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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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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
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Employment effects of offshoring, technological change and migration in a group of Western European economies : impact on different occupations
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023
This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration … occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … industries) and managers/professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs …
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