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Outsourcing is an efficient way to reduce a company’s costs and is often necessary to remain competitive. However, the practice has had its critics. This article summarizes the outsourcing debate that has been going on in the United States and offers some insights about the practice. Also...
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
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Offshoring—the transfer of an industrial activity abroad—has become a fact of life for business. But it is also … the potential loss of domestic jobs. This groundbreaking report provides new insights into the phenomenon of offshoring …. First, the report defines offshoring in detail, allowing readers to see the many ways that industrial activity—both in …
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in Ireland over the period 2001-2006. Our results suggest that, on average, other things equal, enterprises integrated in … on enterprise offshoring behaviour, with offshoring to regions outside of the advanced European Union's economies being …
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, the new LISS household panel study launched in 2006 with over 5,000 households will be used for the testing of innovative …
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The global financial crisis has now spread across multiple countries and sectors, affecting both financial and real spheres in the advanced as well as the developing economies. This has been caused by policies based on "rational expectation" models that advocate deregulated finance, with...
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No matter the cause, recessions are usually accompanied by some combination of job loss, hiring freezes, wage cuts or hours reductions. In a rapidly evolving economic crisis there is a need for timely information to assess labour market performance and develop strategies to address the problems...
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