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In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational...
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possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing, remote work, virtual companies, and platforms. A model illustrates how new … a review of the outsourcing and offshoring literature provides instructive examples of how features of the model will …
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This paper analyses the effect of offshoring (i.e., the relocation of activities previously performed in-house to …, we find that offshoring is a rare event: In the sample of firms with 50 or more persons employed, only about 3% of … manufacturing firms and 1% of business service firms have performed offshoring in the period 2014-2016. Second, difference …
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This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …
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Some countries and regions have been more successful than others in developing information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) services industries. India and the Philippines in particular have offered educated human resources at low cost, attractive fiscal incentives, and industrial...
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
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