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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective
Hogrefe, Jan - 2013
This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is …
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Multi-product offshoring
Eckel, Carsten; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289209
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Creasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric …
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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Elasticity optimism
Imbs, Jean; Méjean, Isabelle - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813483
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Modelling of foreign trade in applied general equilibrium models : theoretical approaches and sensitivity analysis with the GEM-E3 model
Koschel, Henrike; Schmidt, Tobias F. N. - 1998
The specification of the world closure, i.e. the way of closing the domestic economy model by incorporating the external sector, is a crucial component for those models in which production and consumption is not specified endogenously for all countries. This paper looks explicitly at the...
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Human capital creates insider power
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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Trade in tasks and the organization of firms
Marin, Dalia; Schymik, Jan; Tarasov, Alexander - 2015
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Internalizing global value chains : a firm-level analysis
Alfaro, Laura; Antràs, Pol; Conconi, Paola - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011389102