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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce:How Services Facilitate Firms’ International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services andthe decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empiricalanalysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions ofheterogeneous...
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI:Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360562
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Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed tochanges in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current PopulationSurvey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained bychanges in wage setting between and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360538
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Offshoring and Firm Performance:Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
turns out that, compared tonon-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and hada …, and this points to self-selection of “better” firms into offshoring.This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from theliterature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360615
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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and FlexibleOutsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360604
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Outsourcing and Technological Change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing inthe firm’s expectation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360607
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree oftax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360617
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision ofPublic Input Goods in an Economy withOutsourcing and Unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
abroad, and where outsourcing issubstitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount ofresources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360634