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fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundant countries …
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fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor …
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In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms become more internationalized and therefore offshore (import intermediate inputs) and inshore (export final output for intermediate input usage) intensively. Chinaś accession...
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, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities …). Offshoring influences jobs and wages differently depending on the type of industry and worker. We provide a nuanced view of … offshoring in South Africa, using firm- and employer-employee-level data to disentangle its impact on the labour market in terms …
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This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … outsourcing/offshoring indices based on input-output data (World Input Output Database, April 2012 release). Two-way relations … indicate that offshoring reduces the wage growth of domestic medium- and low-skilled workers, we show that this negative effect …
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This paper extends the literature on the implications of offshoring for labour markets by investigating its effect on … international trade in manufacturing inputs. Being particularly interested in the wage effects of offshoring to low wage countries … (LWC), we employ precise LWC classifications (varying across industries and time) to decompose overall offshoring by source …
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Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on...
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Much has been written on the success of the Indian software industry, enumerating systemic factors like first-class higher education and research institutions, both public and private; low labour costs, stimulating (state) policies etc. However, although most studies analyzing the 'Indian'...
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This paper examines the extent of stability, specialisation and divergence in manufacturing industries' export patterns for EU15 countries at both industry and country level, distinguishing between intra and extra EU15 exports as well as different technological categories. Both countrywide and...
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