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The present paper examines the impact of export diversification (both product and destination wise) and ICT on aggregate Employment for a sample of 45 OECD and G20 countries for the period 1990-2019 after controlling for the effects of value-added, wage, physical capital formation, FDI, R&D...
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Liberalization of foreign trade and investment raises the domestic ratio of skilled to unskilled wages (skill premium) if the country has a sufficiently well-educated workforce, but lowers it otherwise. Wide wage inequality is undesirable on equity grounds, especially in poor countries where the...
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We show that, even with flexible domestic wages, international outsourcing may worsen the welfare of the home country … and reduce the profits of all firms. If wages are rigid, outsourcing is welfare-improving if and only if the sum of the … subsidy may improve welfare. We also extend the model to a two-period framework. Delaying outsourcing can be gainful because …
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About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing … face from outside IT suppliers. Narrow outsourcing is entered into labour demand functions where labour is broken down on … percentage point increase in narrow local outsourcing of services reduces manufacturing employment in the same services function …
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outsourcing of customer services / Piyush Sharma, Rajiv Mathur, Abhinav Dhawan -- IT offshoring : a German perspective / Michael …. Wang -- Making sense of the sourcing and shoring maze : various outsourcing and offshoring alternatives / Subrata …. Atkins -- Outsourcing and offshoring : issues and impacts on venture capital / Alev M. Efendioglu -- Outsourcing and …
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