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positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …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 …
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analysis based on the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) shows that more than 900,000 persons … are employed in the environmental sector in Germany. Following the results of an econometrical analysis of employment … perspectives and innovation behaviour integrated environmental technologies will become more relevant whereas employment in …
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To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap-and-trade regime are the most concrete unilateral trade measure put forward to level the carbon playing field. If improperly implemented, such measures could disturb the world...
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This paper compares the level of uncertainty widely reported in climate change scientific publications with the level of uncertainty of the costs estimates of implementing the Kyoto Protocol in the United States. It argues that these two categories of uncertainties were used and ignored,...
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determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled versus unskilled workers. Using a balanced panel of firm-based data …, although weak, skill bias effect of production offshoring on the labor-force composition of Italian manufacturing: in … skill ratio, we find that the skill bias effect is primarily driven by a fall in the employment of production workers, while …
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darunter Offshoring, den Bezug von Leistungen aus dem Ausland, im Zeitraum seit 1971. Auf der Basis amtlicher Statistiken wird … für die Zunahme der Vorleistungsquote abgenommen hat. Mit der Zunahme des Outsourcings hat auch das Offshoring zugenommen … die aus dem Rest der Welt. Profitiert vom Offshoring der deutschen Industrie haben also insbesondere die Länder der …
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that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in … inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …
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We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm's production chain between a … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of …
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