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Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide … countries that contain developing country labor content. We demonstrate that this pattern of offshoring can harbor a pro …
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We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
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This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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techies in 2002 saw greater polarization, and grew faster, from 2002 to 2007. Offshoring reduced employment growth. Among blue …
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shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains … associated with collective bargaining are similar across worker categories. Keywords: exports, offshoring, firm-level wages …
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an increase in wages. Offshoring is negatively related to the prevalence of wage markups. This also holds for the …We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm … wagemarkdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power in both countries. Offshoring benefits firms in that imports of final …
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This paper examines the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections …' monopsony power. Offshoring benefits Belgian and Dutch employers in that imports of final as well as intermediate goods are … Belgium, we also find that offshoring is negatively related to the intensity of wage markups measured by workers' bargaining …
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wages. Offshoring is negatively related to the prevalence of wage markups. This also holds for the intensity of wage markups …We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm …-markdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power in both countries. Offshoring benefits firms in that imports of final as well …
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