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The impact of international outsourcing on individual employment security: a micro level analysis
Geishecker, Ingo - 2006
The paper analyzes how international outsourcing affected individual employment security. The analysis is carried out … at the micro-level, combining monthly spell data from household panel data and industry-level outsourcing measures. By … international outsourcing significantly lowers individual employment security. Interestingly, the effect does, however, not differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299112
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The impact of international outsourcing on individual employment security: a micro level analysis
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor) - 2006
The paper analyzes how international outsourcing affected individual employment security. The analysis is carried out … at the micro-level, combining monthly spell data from household panel data and industry-level outsourcing measures. By … international outsourcing significantly lowers individual employment security. Interestingly, the effect does, however, not differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003422610
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Offshoring potential and employment dynamics
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2014
This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419779
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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250022
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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement
Fries, Jan - 2014
This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457910
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Labor market regulation and firm adjustments in skill demand
Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023
We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced firing costs for permanent employees and tightened temporary contracts' regulation to increase job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310531
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Trade competition, technology and labour reallocation
Baziki, Selva Bahar; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016
This paper provides new evidence on the reallocation of workers across firms and industries with different technologies in response to increased import competition from developing countries. Using employer-employee matched data for the Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502396
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Trade competition, technology and labor re-allocation
Bahar Baziki, Selva; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016
This paper studies the changes in labor allocation across firms and industries in response to changes in technology (captured by the adoption of information and communication technologies, ICT) and import competition, due to increased exposure to trade competition from China. We use detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412264
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Long-run patterns of labour market polarisation : evidence from German micro data
Bachmann, Ronald; Çim, Merve; Green, Colin - 2018
The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs that can be described as intensive in routine tasks. These jobs have been shown to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855038
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Long-run patterns of labour market polarisation : evidence from German micro data
Bachmann, Ronald; Çim, Merve; Green, Colin - 2018
The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs that can be described as intensive in routine tasks. These jobs have been shown to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849989