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Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor … mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in … response to market conditions) and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces outsourcing …

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Variation in labour skills and offshoring across time zones

Prasad, Alaka Shree; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021

The paper extends Dei (2010) to check the role of time zone difference on offshoring of service tasks when the quality of workers varies between the partner countries. We frame a model where partner countries are located in non-overlapping time zones, and the skill level of the partner country...

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Variation in labour skills and offshoring acrosstime zones

Prasad, Alaka Shree; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021

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Arbeitslosigkeit und Lohnspreizung - Empirische Befunde zur Arbeitsmarktsituation gering Qualifizierter in Deutschland

Rukwid, Ralf - 2007

In den Industriestaaten stehen die weniger qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte derzeit unter einem erheblichen Anpassungsdruck. Die Nachfragestruktur auf dem Arbeitsmarkt hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten zuungunsten der formal Ungelernten verschoben, wobei als die Hauptursachen dieser Entwicklung...

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Distributional effects of preferential and multilateral trade liberalization: the case of Paraguay

Casabianca, Elizabeth Jane - 2012

In this paper I apply Porto (2006) to Paraguay using household level data. The aim is to assess the distributional impact of the preferential and multilateral trade liberalization in a small member country. I also follow Nicita (2009) assuming incomplete pass-through on prices of traded goods...

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Export Market Performance of OECD countries: an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness

Carlin, Wendy; Glyn, Andrew; Reenen, John Van - 1999

This paper investigates the relationship between export market shares and relative unit labour costs using a long panel of twelve manufacturing industries across fourteen OECD countries. We ask two questions: (a) how sensitive are export market shares to changes in relative costs and (b) what...

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

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Trade liberalization, industry concentration and female workers: The case of Egypt

AlAzzawi, Shireen - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

The gender wage gap increased significantly in Egypt over the last two decades, while female labor force participation rates have steadily declined. This study investigates the relationship between women's labor market outcomes in the manufacturing sector, the degree of industry concentration,...

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Can Trade Explain the Sector Bias of Skill-biased Technical Change?

Stehrer, Robert - 2004

There is evidence that the skilled to unskilled wage rates were rising in the 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. This can potentially be explained by a Heckscher-Ohlin framework where economic integration implies that the advanced countries specialize in skilled-labour-intensive industries...

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