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Offshoring in Sektoren, welche sich im Anteil der verlagerbaren Arbeitsschritte unterscheiden. Wir zeigen, dass Offshoring in …
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labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit … variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis … analyze the effects of offshoring across a continuum of industries with different shares of offshorable tasks that are linked …
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We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities on offshoring … firms: larger, more productive firms are more likely to make use of the offshoring opportunity; the fraction of firms that … engages in offshoring is positive and smaller than one in any size or revenue category. These patterns generate an overlap of …
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This paper looks inside the firm and investigates how trade alters the matching of worker-specific abilities and task-specific requirements. The outcome of this matching depends on how firms organize their recruitment process and how much they invest into the screening of applicants. In the open...
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This paper sets up a heterogeneous firms model, where production consists of a continuum of tasks that differ in complexity. Firms hire low-skilled and high-skilled workers to perform these tasks. How firms assign workers to tasks depends on factor prices for the two skill types and the...
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This paper investigates theoretically and empirically firm-internal skill adjustments upon acquisition by a foreign investor and adresses the following questions: i) Does a acquired firm change its demand for skill and how (via hiring or training)? ii) Why would acquired firms engage in skill...
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