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Offshoring, endogenous skill decision, and labor market outcomes

Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2016

-deteriorating effects of offshoring. As a result, we aim at restoring welfare by increasing the opportunity cost of staying low-skill. In …We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential …. Our exercise suggests that the endogenous adjustment of low-skill workers can only partially offset the welfare …

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The march of the techies : technology, trade, and job polarization in France, 1994-2007

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016

techies in 2002 saw greater polarization, and grew faster, from 2002 to 2007. Offshoring reduced employment growth. Among blue …

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Offshoring and skill-biased technical change in the context of US protectionism

Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2019

skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through …

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FDI and onshore employment dynamics

Koerner, Konstantin; Moritz, Michael; Schäffler, Johannes - 2021

In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational...

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Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes

Agnese, Pablo - 2016

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Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common...

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany - a Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Dräger, Vanessa - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...

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