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Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights : No Race-to-the-Bottom?
McLaren, John; Im, Hyejoon - 2021
In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...
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Employment effects of joining global production networks : does domestic value added matter?
Wannaphong Durongkaveroj - 2021
Is the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value-added ('value-added ratio') in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export-oriented development strategy? This paper examines the...
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Human Capital as a Basis of Comparative Advantage Equations in Services Outsourcing : A Cross Country Comparative Study
Dash, Shailey - 2006
International outsourcing of services has come to occupy an increasingly important part of international trade …. Analytically services outsourcing is the export of services by a country to the outsourcing nation. Given this, the pattern of … essentially constitute outsourcers, and developing nations such as India and China that carryout outsourcing. Different …
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The direct and indirect effect of services offshoring on local labour market outcomes
Magli, Martina - 2020
The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive...
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The spillover effect of services offshoring on local labour markets
Magli, Martina - 2022
I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local...
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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …
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Do Labor Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Görg, Holger - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region … outsourcing across countries. We discuss some possible reasons for these differences based on labor market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728525
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773080
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Do labour market institutions matter? : micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631738
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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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