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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …
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Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally …
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, imports and offshoring. We consider their effects on wages and the probability of moving into unemployment. Our econometric … analysis suggests that there is little impact of trade-related variables on individual-level wages, whereas there appears to be …
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …
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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
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