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The impact of offshoring on technical change : evidence from Swedish manufacturing firms
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - In: Review of international economics 30 (2022) 3, pp. 796-818
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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 … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows …
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a taskassignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480329
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Implementing the international relocation of production technology
Bruijn, Erik Joost de; Steenhuis, Harm-Jan - In: Management of technology : growth through business …, (pp. 513-522). 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001765029
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Offshoring, Total Factor Productivity and Skill-Biased Technological Change
Akhmetova, Zhanar - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020464
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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2011
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278329
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The dynamics of proits and wages : technology, of-shoring and demand
Bogliacino, Francesco; Guarascio, Dario; Cirillo, Valeria - 2016
This article explores the impact of innovation, offshoring and demand on profits and wage dynamics. The growing … highlights the contrasting effects of R&D and offshoring as wage determinants - the former exerts a positive effect while the …-skilled workers are favored by both innovation and offshoring, offshoring exerts downward pressure primarily on low-skilled wages (not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420638
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The march of the techies : technology, trade, and job polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507322
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Unconditional and conditional wage polarization in Europe
Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - 2014
This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional - on technology - wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On...
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