Services Offshoring And Its Impact On The Labor Market

Author : Deborah Winkler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790821993
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Services Offshoring and its Impact on the Labor Market written by Deborah Winkler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Services – from information technology to research to finance – are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled workers in industrialized countries, this study finds that services offshoring also has negative consequences for high-skilled workers. Focusing on the case of Germany, Deborah Winkler shows how services offshoring has grown, who is most affected and what policy makers can do. Winkler measures the impact of services offshoring on German productivity, employment, and employment structure. She provides a well-balanced synthesis of theoretical insights, detailed empirical analysis, and economic policy recommendations. Although her main focus is on the case of Germany, many insights are also applicable to other developed countries.

Author : Sigurd R. Nilsen
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422304945
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshoring of Services written by Sigurd R. Nilsen and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much attention has focused on the offshoringÓ of services to lower-wage locations abroad. Offshoring generally refers to an org. purchase of goods or services from abroad that were previously produced domestically. Extensive public debate has arisen about both the potential benefits of services offshoring, such as lower consumer prices & higher U.S. productivity, as well as the potential costs, such as increased job displacement for selected U.S. workers. This report: provides an overview of experts' views on the potential impacts of services offshoring; describes the types of policies that have been proposed in response to offshoring; & highlights some key areas where add'l. research might help advance the debate about offshoring. Illus.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264030948
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshoring and Employment Trends and Impacts written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report defines offshoring in detail, describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on employment both positively and negatively, and outlines the policy implications, suggesting ways to limit the downside of offshoring while building trust among stakeholders.

Author : Mary Amiti
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
ISBN 13 : 9781451862577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Offshoring, Productivity, and Employment written by Mary Amiti and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately 5 percent of productivity growth. There is a small negative effect of less than half a percent on employment when industries are finely disaggregated (450 manufacturing industries). However, this affect disappears at more aggregate industry level of 96 industries indicating that there is sufficient growth in demand in other industries within these broadly defined classifications to offset any negative effects.

Author : Jacob F. Kirkegaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshoring, Outsourcing, and Production Relocation--labor-market Effects in the OECD Countries and Developing Asia written by Jacob F. Kirkegaard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pablo Agnese
Publisher : Fundacion BBVA
ISBN 13 : 8492937033
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshoring in the Global Economy written by Pablo Agnese and published by Fundacion BBVA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pesar de que los procesos de deslocalización (offshoring) no son un fenómeno del todo nuevo, la forma en que se llevan a cabo sí que lo es. El objetivo de este libro es ayudar a los directivos de empresa a tratar con los retos organizativos derivados del auge de la deslocalización que ahora nos espera.En vista de las dificultades de obtener un índice o medida directa sobre la deslocalización, de la heterogeneidad de las fuentes disponibles, y de la falta de consenso en torno a la terminología utilizada, este estudio se basa en gran medida en los datos recientes de la OCDE y la ORN (una red de investigación a la que pertenecen los autores), así como en informes sobre la inversión extranjera directa. El estudio se ofrece como una guía a los tres grandes grupos de interés implicados. En primer lugar, advierte a los gobiernos de no obstaculizar "el proceso económico natural" que el fenómeno significa. En segundo lugar, aconseja a las empresas a visualizar a la deslocalización como una parte integral de la estrategia global. Y en tercer lugar, resalta la necesidad de flexibilidad y formación para aquellos trabajadores que han podido verse afectados por el fenómeno de la deslocalización.Este libro se dirige fundamentalmente a aquellos investigadores en el campo de las instituciones, a los decisores de política, y a los directivos del sector privado, que puedan tener cierto interés en los recientes procesos de deslocalización, y en la creencia de que el mismo les pueda ser útil para el desarrollo de las estrategias adecuadas a escala mundial.

Author : Ashok Bardhan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199344124
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment written by Ashok Bardhan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment deals with a key issue of our time: How do globalization, economic growth and technological developments interact to impact employment? The book brings together eminent authors from a wide range of countries around the world, drawing on their diverse academic and policymaking backgrounds, and specific national or regional settings to assess how global economic changes have affected employment opportunities. The book is unique in a number of ways - It has a global reach, presenting analyses and viewpoints from both developed and developing countries, from all continents; its timing and context is particularly instructive, since most papers are located in the aftermath of the global financial crisis; and it addresses a wide range of questions-How do different types of offshoring and global linkages impact employment? How is the skill mix of the labor force impacted by globalization? How do institutional structures and regulations influence the outcome of globalization in developed and developing countries? Individual chapters analyze how the impact of global linkages on national economies is mediated through a number of structural aspects of the economy - its institutional and industrial structure, its resource base, its predominant firm type, its comparative advantage, and its regulatory practices. The chapters in the book cover both manufacturing and services sectors, and many chapters also address policy issues regarding innovation and job creation.

Author : Andrew Blair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessing the Impact of IT-Enabled Services Offshoring on U.S. Employment and Earnings written by Andrew Blair and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a preliminary assessment of the recent impact of what can be called the “IT-enabled services offshoring” process on U.S. domestic employment and earnings in relevant services sectors. It draws upon relatively new international services trade data sets developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), which are used in conjunction with service employment and real wage data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Current Employment Statistics (CES), and deals with the years since the turn of the new century, when concerns about the IT-enabled services offshoring process sparked intense professional discussion. The study documents that U.S. trade in IT-enabled services is generally a two-directional phenomenon, entailing both an import as well as an export dimension. While the overall U.S. trade balance for IT-enabled services has been consistently positive, consistently negative trade balances are observable in computer services, an indication of substantial offshoring in that area; moreover, the significant two-way trade pattern in the telecommunications area suggests the presence of offshoring in that area as well. With respect to the other IT-enabled categories (e.g., legal, accounting, and architectural and engineering services) consistent two-way trade has existed in all of the areas reviewed, thus suggesting the presence of some degree of offshoring across all areas. However, while not representing a congruent mapping of categories with the international trade in services data, the available occupational employment and earnings data indicate that the overall relative impact of the IT-enabled offshoring phenomenon has thus far apparently been modest, reflecting most notably the small shares that the relevant occupational categories represent in overall U.S. private employment. Moreover, the observable diverse annual fluctuations and trends in relative occupational employment and earnings in these services sectors are what one would reasonably expect in a huge continental labor market (with its numerous regional and local sub-markets) that is influenced by a variety of forces, including but beyond IT-enabled offshoring.

Author : Lionel Fontagné
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019877916X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Factory-free Economy written by Lionel Fontagné and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An economic analysis of de-industrialization that considers the ongoing transformation of the industrial economies and the consequences for economic policy.

Author : Otto Kässi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Labor-market Effects of Service Offshoring written by Otto Kässi and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I use novel high-quality survey data on firms' international sourcing activities combined with firm-level financial and linked employer-employee data to study the effect of services offshoring on wages and employment. To overcome the endogeneity related to reverse causality and omitted variables, I use microsynth, a variation of the synthetic control method specially developed for high-dimensional microdata. I find that offshoring firms pay higher wages for both high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and employ fewer FTE workers compared with a synthetic control, but these effects take several years to appear.