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Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 countries than in the rest and that, in some cases,...
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Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and conventional outsourcing decisions as a way to reduce employment. The results for a sample of 32 countries show the relevance of factors not considered previously in the literature. Firms that are below average in quality or...
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, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring …This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …
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Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 countries than in the rest and that, in some cases,...
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In this paper, in order to study the impact offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we construct … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring, the economywide rate of …
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