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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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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement

Fries, Jan - 2014

This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...

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The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany : evidence from an establishment panel

Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - 2001

This paper investigates under which conditions firms use fixed-term contracts, subcontracted and freelance work. Using a probit model which accounts for unobserved heterogeneity, we find that positive changes in expected or actual turnover are associated with a higher probability of employing...

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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services

Falk, Martin - 2001

Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter hierarchies, delegation of authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper...

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Diffusion of information technology, internet use and the demand of heterogeneous labor

Falk, Martin - 2001

This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...

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New technologies and the demand for heterogeneous labor : firm-level evidence for the German business-related services sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

This paper investigates the impact of modern information and communication technologies on the demand for heterogeneous labor. It starts with an interrelated factor demand system. The "desired" level of employment, which is needed in such models, is derived from a generalized Leontief cost...

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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?

Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...

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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …

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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services : evidence from firm level panel data

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 2000 - Revised January 2000

This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...

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