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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...
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negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has … contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This result is obtained while controlling for …
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attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts … services inputs calculated from the World Input Output Database (WIOD). In manufacturing we find that temporary workers face a … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to …
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Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to own labour costs changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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