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Recent advances in information technology (IT) have enabled firms in many industries to give middle managers new access to timely production data. "Process monitoring" technologies give distant managers a window to production which can both lower their cost of monitoring subordinates and provide...
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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 …
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floor level) and the principle of effective demand. In particular we focus on the role of technology and offshoring as … Kingdom. The contrasting effects of R&D and offshoring emerge as determinants of wages. Investment and internal demands are … the intuition that offshoring hits the medium-low skill categories. …
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offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …
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We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …
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We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …
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We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation …
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