Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

Abstract

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Routine jobs, employment and technological innovation in global value chains

“…Liu and Trefler, 2008). This report finds a positive and significant correlation between the offshoring of inputs and the level of employment of routine-intensive workers, particularly in manufacturing industries.…”

Cross-Border Investment, Heterogeneous Workers, and Employment Security – Evidence from Germany

“…In the first one, we do so by including a normally distributed random effect, while in the second one, we choose a discrete mass-point distribution for the individual-specific 'frailty' term (Heckman and Singer, 1984). 18,19 17 We thereby follow the example of Liu and Trefler (2008), who estimate the effect of service in-and outsourcing on different labour market transition probabilities using a sample of US workers. 18 The estimation results of both random-effects models turn out to be very similar to the estimation results of the standard complementary log-log model.…”

Cross-Border Investment, Heterogeneous Workers, and Employment Security - Evidence from Germany

“…17 We thereby follow the example of Liu and Trefler (2008), who estimate the effect of service in-and outsourcing on different labour market transition probabilities using a sample of US workers. 18 The estimation results of both random-effects models turn out to be very similar to the estimation results of the standard complementary log-log model.…”