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Demand for Skills in Canada : The Role of Foreign Outsourcing and Information-Communication Technology
Yan, Beiling - 2009
important question: what is the role of ICT and foreign outsourcing in the increased demand for skilled workers‘ Using 84 … Canadian manufacturing industries over 1981–96, we find that both ICT and foreign outsourcing are important contributors to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202483
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Demand for skills in Canada : the role of foreign outsourcing and information-communication technology
Yan, Beiling - In: The Canadian journal of economics 39 (2006) 1, pp. 53-67
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Demand for skills in Canada : the role of foreign outsourcing and information-communication technology
Yan, Beiling - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003197258
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Offshoring and the skill structure of labour demand in Belgium
Hertveldt, Bart; Michel, Bernhard - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 161 (2013) 4, pp. 399-420
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345369
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Offshoring, total factor productivity and skill-biased technological change
Akhmetova, Zhanar; Ferguson, Shon - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283243
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The Effect of High‐Tech Services Offshoring on Skilled Employment : Intra‐Firm Evidence
Tamayo, Mery - 2014
The offshoring of high‐tech services has greatly increased in recent years, with consequences for firms demand for … skilled employment in firms. This paper specifically analyzes the relationship between R&D offshoring and the demand for R … services firms a 1 percentage point increase in R&D offshoring raises the demand for researchers by about 11%. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059132
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The role of "skill enhancing trade" in Brazil : some evidence from microdata
Araújo, Bruno César Pino Oliveira de; Bogliacino, … - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860437
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The role of “skill enhancing trade” in Brazil : some evidence from microdata
Araújo, Bruno César Pino Oliveira de; Bogliacino, … - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the ‘90s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000.Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857884
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Skill-biased technological change and skill-enhancing trade in Turkey : evidence from longitudinal microdata
Srour, Ilina; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
This paper explores the causes of skill-based employment differentials within the Turkish manufacturing sector over the period 1980-2001. Turkey is taken as an example of a developing economy that, in that period, had been technologically advancing and becoming increasingly integrated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729419
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Skill-Biased Technological Change and Skill-Enhancing Trade in Turkey : Evidence from Longitudinal Microdata
Srour, Ilina - 2013
This paper explores the causes of skill-based employment differentials within the Turkish manufacturing sector over the period 1980-2001. Turkey is taken as an example of a developing economy that, in that period, had been technologically advancing and becoming increasingly integrated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083379