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Multinational enterprises (MNE) have been highly instrumental in the processes leading to the increased fragmentation of production within global value chains. We examine the relationship between relative demands for skills, non-routine or non-offshorable tasks in Swedish MNE parents (onshore)...
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the association between offshoring within Swedish MNEs and changes their parent employment at regional level (in local …-routine) in the parent. Our results reveal large spatial heterogeneities in the relationships between MNE offshoring and onshore … employment in various regions. The results suggest that MNE offshoring might be a factor contributing to diverging onshore …
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We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational … enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated … not alter the direction of the relationship. We find offshoring to predict between 10 and 15 percent of observed changes …
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the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …
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This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of internationalisation. A brief overview of the history of the internationalisation of Finnish firms is also presented. The general conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment...
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Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a large proportion of its labor force remains employed in the informal sector. Since one of the main objectives of the maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we...
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Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a large proportion of its labor force remains employed in the informal sector. Since one of the main objectives of the maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112603
We provide three new stylized facts that characterize the role of multinationals in the U.S. manufacturing employment decline, using a novel microdata panel from 1993-2011 that augments U.S. Census data with firm ownership information and transaction-level trade. First, over this period, U.S....
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program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts … engage in offshoring, and that this leads to gains in output and (measured) productivity, and potential gains in employment … and wages, in the remaining domestic activities of the offshoring firm. Consistent with these models, we find that …
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Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a large proportion of its labor force remains employed in the informal sector. Since one of the main objectives of the maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391722