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level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds … of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … main conclusion is that offshoring can significantly affect the total domestic employment but that the significance and the …
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This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall … of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover … effects. In the manufacturing sector, especially in-house offshoring of R&D has a significant negative impact on the plan to …
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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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Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
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The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
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Norway has a well-functioning labour market with high employment and a compressed wage distribution, contributing to low inequality. Norway nevertheless faces challenges from a trend decline in employment rates among the young and prime-age men. Furthermore, immigrants and people with...
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The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
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To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted...
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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