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Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies
(Elsevier, 2016)
We analyze the effects of low-skill offshoring on welfare. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria we discuss three alternative policies that could potentially outweigh the ...
Employment effects of offshoring across sectors and occupations in Japan
(Wiley, 2012)
In the case of Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on firm-level data and delve into the productivity effects and the skill upgrading between skilled and unskilled workers. Here, we carry ...
Offshoring in the global economy: management practices and welfare implications
(Fundación BBVA, 2011)
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 ...
Offshoring and productivity from a time-series perspective
(Deutsche Post, 2013)
The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple framework for estimating the contribution of these strategies to the growth rate of ...
More alike than different: the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
(Springer Nature, 2012)
Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument ...
The unintended consequences of childcare regulation: evidence from a regression discontinuity design
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
In several countries governments fund childcare provision but in many others it is privately funded as labor regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this later case, there ...
Do reductions of standard hours affect employment transitions?: evidence from Chile
(Elsevier, 2013)
This study exploits the reduction of weekly working hours from 48 to 45 announced in Chile in 2001 and implemented in 2005. Our results suggest that non-anticipatory behavior of firms was found on key ...
Does a mandatory reduction of standard working hours improve employees' health status?
(Wiley, 2016)
Most of the empirical evidence regarding the impact of reductions of standard working hours analyzes its effects on employment outcomes, family life balance, and social networks, but there is no empirical ...
La misión de Makonsa (nota del instructor)
(2015-05-19)