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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 … workplace characteristics as well as occupational information relating to the degree of offshorability with industry-level data …
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and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing? Second, what determines productivity in Vietnamese manufacturing: the roles of …
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This dissertation consists of five chapters. The first chapter produces introduction. Chapter 2 aims at analyzing how the presence of foreign affiliates in Vietnamese manufacturing influences the productivity of domestic firms through horizontal and vertical linkages in the period of post-WTO...
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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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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. -- International outsourcing ; individual wages ; labour market institutions …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. -- International outsourcing ; individual wages ; labour market institutions …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …
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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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