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a matched difference-in-differences (DiD) approach with data on German firms that have similar propensities to conduct … intensities of managing, administration, and labor legislation play a major role in firms' engagement in international expansion … production tasks (monitoring, producing, measuring) in manufacturing MNEs or typical service tasks (informing, medical, repairing …
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How does a firm’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in a low-wage country change its onshore task demand in a high … a matched difference-in-differences (DiD) approach with data on German firms that have similar propensities to conduct … intensities of managing, administration, and labor legislation play a major role in firms’ engagement in international expansion …
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service offshoring has increased firm employment. In line with the canonical trade in tasks model, the employment gains are … effect ambiguous. This paper investigates the employment effects of service offshoring in a newly combined and exceptionally … detailed panel dataset, covering almost the entire universe of German firms' service imports over the years 2002-2013. It …
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the Americas - in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural … of globalization, but depend on labor mobility. For our analysis, we digitize data from Prussian industrial and …
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This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalisation (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...
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the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural … of globalization, but depend on labor mobility. For our analysis, we digitize data from Prussian industrial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648044
We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and individual skill upgrading. Skill upgrading takes the form of on-the-job training, complementing the existing literature, which mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a...
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We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and individual skill upgrading. Skill upgrading takes the form of on-thejob training, complementing the existing literature, which mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010367483
This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) job complexity and (2) the characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the...
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A number of recent works have shown that the substantial increase in imports to the United States from China over recent decades led to large but highly concentrated negative labor market outcomes for those workers most exposed to these imports. On the other hand, such substantially negative...
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