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Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign a¢ liates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...

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Bias Due to Input Source Substitutions: Can It Be Measured?

Diewert, Erwin; Nakamura, Alice O. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

Once a business opts to purchase rather than produce an input, it can also change the source from which the product is procured. Producer price index programs face problems in dealing with price changes associated with sourcing changes. We present measures for price index bias due to sourcing...

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Offshoring and Unemployment

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …

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Sourcing substitution and related price index biases

Nakamura, Alice O.; Diewert, W. Erwin; Greenlees, John S.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

We define a class of bias problems that arise when purchasers shift their expenditures among sellers charging different prices for units of precisely defined and interchangeable product items that are nevertheless regarded as different for the purposes of price measurement. For...

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Commercial migration intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment

Broek, Diane van den; Harvey, William; Groutsis, Dimitria - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 30 (2016) 3, pp. 523-534

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Unlimited unskilled labour and the sex segregation of occupations in Jamaica

Ricketts, Heather E.; Bernard, David V. - In: International labour review 154 (2015) 4, pp. 475-496

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Temporary agency work, migration and the crisis in Greece : labour market segmentation intensified

Maroukis, Thanos - In: Transfer : European review of labour and research ; … 22 (2016) 2, pp. 179-192

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The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis

Beissinger, Thomas; Baudy, Philipp - 2015

Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...

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Occupational segregation by sex in Spain : exclusion or confinement?

Duen̋as Fernández, Diego; Iglesias Fernández, Carlos; … - In: International labour review 153 (2014) 2, pp. 311-336

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Gender equality, part-time work and segregation in Europe

Sparreboom, Theo - In: International labour review 153 (2014) 2, pp. 245-268

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