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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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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 …
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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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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …
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This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically … competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting … labour market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for …
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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe … rest of the world. -- international trade ; gravity model ; offshoring ; panel data ; European Union …
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Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows … related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a … in parts and components. Our results bring evidence that bilateral trade related to offshoring activities across Europe …
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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106562
Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Typically, this search … incomplete specialisation with complete specialisation as a natural limiting case. Results support evidence for offshoring … latest waves of offshoring activities from old to new EU members may have been more likely to hurt (low-skill) workers in the …
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strategies of technological change and offshoring. We perform an industry-level analysis on 38 manufacturing and service sectors …, productivity growth and capital-labour conflict, with profits driven by product innovation and offshoring, and wages rising faster …
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