Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern.

Abstract: The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring f...

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Publicado en:European Economic Review Vol. 61; pp. 132 - 153
Autores principales: Baumgarten, Daniel, Geishecker, Ingo, Görg, Holger
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Jul2013
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          Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Berlin Office, Hessische Str. 10, D-10115 Berlin, Germany
          European University Viadrina - Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
          Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany and CEPR, UK
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        Wages
        Economic policy
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