Relocation of production and jobs to Central and Eastern Europe—Who gains and who loses?

Altzinger, Wilfried; Landesmann, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2007.12.002

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“…Such a process occurs through both a cost channeli.e., with the inflow of cheap intermediate inputs stemming from the East and feeding the German manufacturing VCsand a technological one i.e., using part of the accumulated surplus to strengthen the technological level of the core's industrial structure. On a similar ground, the works of Landesmann and Stehrer (2000) and Altzinger and Landesmann (2008), by explicitly taking into account the role of technological specialization as influencing the patterns of international production, highlight important structural asymmetries in GVCs participation in the enlarged Europe.…”

Section: Asymmetries In the New International Division Of Labormentioning

confidence: 96%

Integration in Global Value Chains and Employment

Bontadini¹,

Evangelista²,

Meliciani³

et al. 2020

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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The chapter selectively reviews the theoretical and empirical literatures on the potential sources of countries' asymmetries in their integration in global value chains (GVCs), with the aim of identifying the effects of such processes on the dynamics and composition of employment. We consider asymmetries related to the positioning of countries in: (i) the new international division of labor; (ii) the

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Section: Asymmetries In the New International Division Of Labormentioning

confidence: 96%

Integration in Global Value Chains and Employment

Bontadini¹,

Evangelista²,

Meliciani³

et al. 2020

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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“…using part of the accumulated surplus to strengthen the technological level of the core's industrial structure. On a similar ground, the works of Landesmann and Stehrer (2000) and Altzinger and Landesmann (2008), by explicitly taking into account the role of technological specialization as influencing the patterns of international production, highlight important structural asymmetries in GVCs participation in the enlarged Europe.…”

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confidence: 96%

Integration in Global Value Chains and Employment in Europe

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This chapter aims at revisiting the empirical evidence on the recent trends of countries' integration in global value chains in Europe. It investigates two potential sources of unbalances that these processes might relate to: (i) the sectoral specialization of the patterns of international fragmentation, whether high technology manufacturing or knowledge intensive services (KIBS); (ii) the occupational categories that have benefited or been penalized by these trends. A rich empirical mapping of these trends in the European countries is provided, based on OECD ICIO and EU ISCO data. The results on the overall and sectoral-specific trends of integration in GVCs and the associated changes in the shares of managers and manual workers show a dual-speed and qualitatively different integration patterns in Europe, with Eastern European (EE) countries rapidly integrating in high tech manufacturing, and the core of western countries strengthening their mutual integration in the KIBS area. Despite the relatively "good quality" integration of EE countries, the evidence does not seem to reveal a mirroring upgrading of employment structures. While this empirical contribution does not attempt to identify causal relationships, the picture provided in the chapter shows that, overall, integration in GVC seems to reproduce and perhaps exacerbate the initial asymmetries in the sectoral and employment structure, with manual workers occupation reducing overall and knowledge intensive occupations concentrating in western Europe.

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“…The periphery, on the contrary, may experience an overall weakening of its industrial structure leading to a reduction of both low-and high-skill employment in manufacturing and a rise of lowskill employment in low-tech services (see, Celi et al, 2017 for an empirical validation of such hypotheses). On a similar ground, the works of Landesmann and Stehrer (2000) and Altzinger and Landesmann (2008), by taking explicitly into account the role of technological specialization and the technological characteristics of industries as factors influencing the patterns of international production, highlight another important structural dimension of offshoring.…”

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Offshoring, industry heterogeneity and employment

Bramucci

Cirillo

Evangelista

et al. 2021

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

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Economies and production systems are subject to incessant processes of structural change fuelled by the dynamics of demand, technology and international competition. The increasing international fragmentation of production, also known as "offshoring", is an important element of such a (global in scale) process of structural change having important implications for employment and on the way employment gains and losses are distributed across firms, industries, national economies and components of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom), distinguishing between different types of inputs/tasks offshored, different types of offshoring industries and types of professional groups affected by offshoring. Results provide a rather heterogeneous picture of both offshoring patterns and their effects on labour, and the presence of significant differences across industries. Along with this variety of employment outcomes, the empirical evidence suggests that offshoring activities are mainly driven by a cost reduction (labour saving) rationale. This is particularly the case for the manufacturing industry where offshoring is found to exert a negative impact among the less qualified (manual) or more routinized (clerks) types of jobs, while the main difference between high-and low-technology industries has to do with the type of labour tasks that are offshored and the types of domestic jobs that are affected. In hightech industries the negative effects of offshoring on employment are concentrated among the most qualified professional groups (managers and clerks). A specular pattern is found in the case of the low-tech industries where job losses are associated to the offshoring of the least innovative stages of production and manual workers are those most penalised.

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Relocation of production and jobs to Central and Eastern Europe—Who gains and who loses?

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Integration in Global Value Chains and Employment

Integration in Global Value Chains and Employment

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