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Offshoring potential and employment dynamics
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2014
This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....
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Wage bargaining, job loss fears and offshoring
Riedl, Maximilian - 2013
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Workers' views of the impact of trade on jobs
Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - 2010
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers' perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths,...
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Job reduction
McCourt, Willy - In: Global human resource management : managing people in …, (pp. 279-309). 2003
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Labour market shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, inequalities and child outcomes
Hupkau, Claudia; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Machin, Stephen; … - 2020
We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children. Using data collected in the UK before and...
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Labour market shocks and parental investments during the Covid-19 pandemic
Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer; Isphording, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 82 (2023), pp. 1-21
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Job insecurity, employability and financial threat during COVID-19
Greenglass, Esther; Fiksenbaum, Lisa - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 15 (2023) 1, pp. 29-47
COVID-19 has resulted not only in widespread illness and death, it has also upended most spheres of social life including the economic/financial one in that it has had large impacts on local economies, resulting in widespread job loss, job insecurity and loss of income. Employability, a...
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Beyond job losses: the net effects of offshoring and inshoring on employment in the Danish economy
Ørberg Jensen, Peter D.; Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk; … - In: Strategic outsourcing : an International journal 2 (2009) 2, pp. 123-144
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International outsourcing, the nature of tasks, and occupational stability : empirical evidence for Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2009
international outsourcing affects the individual risk of leaving the occupation. Moreover, a rich data set on tasks performed in … occupations is used to better characterize the sources of worker vulnerability. While international service outsourcing is … associated with an increase in overall stability, the impact of international material outsourcing is slightly negative. These …
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Offshoring, job satisfaction and job insecurity
Budría, Santiago; Milgram Baleix, Juliette - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The … workers in industries with higher offshoring intensity report lower job satisfaction and/or are more prone to be unsecure at … offshoring is associated with lower job satisfaction. The results are also indicative of some heterogeneity in the offshoring …
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