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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can …
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fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs …: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring … to the East entails the opposite effect. The overall effect adds up to a 4.2 percent increase in wages for jobs with high …
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In this paper, we provide first empirical evidence on the effect of outsourcing on union wages using linked employer … appears to deteriorate the bargaining position of unions. Outsourcing is not found to have a negative effect on the wages of … unaffected by outsourcing, high skilled workers see their wages rise in industries with a high level of outsourcing. There is no …
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goods and have thereby neglected the impact of international outsourcing. In this paper it is argued that outsourcing can be …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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links on wages between workers from Western, Central–Eastern, and Southern Europe employed in manufacturing and non … pressure on wages in Europe. This effect mainly concerns workers from Western Europe employed in manufacturing and is driven by …, but the pressure of GVC imports on wages in Western Europe is not economically negligible, in particular when inputs are …
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deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …
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dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
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