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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...
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investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
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knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go …, innovative output and the labour market, and growth and development. (Re)locating in fact impacts on knowledge creation … and ecological benefits and responsibilities arising from globalisation, technological change, and innovation. It analyses …
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This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a … larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international …
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We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in …
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that firms use offshore cost savings opportunities to improve the efficiency of the innovation process, although not …
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