منابع مشابه
Globalization, offshoring and jobs
The labour market consequences of globalization in general, and offshoring in particular, have been hotly debated in recent public discussions and academia, in particular in industrialized countries. One of the reasons for this may be illustrated with reference to the World Investment Report 2004 (UNCTAD, 2004), which provides examples of recent offshoring cases in services industries in the Un...
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector version of the Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) model with a continuum of tasks in each sector and we...
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During past decades, substantial skill and occupation relocation took place across U.S. cities: big cities attract more skilled workers and specialize more in cognitiveintensive occupations. Motivated by the empirical literature on improvement in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the increasing domestic production fragmentation—or domestic offshoring—we develop a spatial equil...
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An increasing number of manufacturers are shifting some stages of the production process offshore. This study investigates the effects of offshoring on productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries for the period 1988-2004. Material offshoring, as measured by an import share of intermediate material inputs, has steadily increased during the period, with a pronounced increase in offshoring t...
متن کاملGetting offshoring right.
The prospect of offshoring and outsourcing business processes has captured the imagination of CEOs everywhere. In the past five years, a rising number of companies in North America and Europe have experimented with this strategy, hoping to reduce costs and gain strategic advantage. But many businesses have had mixed results. According to several studies, half the organizations that have shifted...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of International Economics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0022-1996
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.03.010