Simon J. Evenett, Alexander Hijzen
During the current phase of international market integration one important form of corporate restructuring is through cross-border merger or acquisition. Even though such restructuring typically...
International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg, Robert C. Hine
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK....
International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg, Robert C. Hine
This article investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the UK. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK....
Does Offshoring Pay? Firm-Level Evidence from Japan
Alexander HIJZEN, INUI Tomohiko, TODO Yasuyuki
This paper explores the impact of offshoring, or contracting out of business activities to foreign providers, on firm productivity, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 1994-2000. We find...
The Effects of Multinational Production on Domestic Performance: Evidence from Japanese Firms
Alexander HIJZEN, INUI Tomohiko, TODO Yasuyuki
In the present paper we investigate the causal effect of becoming a multinational on home performance for a large panel of Japanese firms for the period 1995-2002. We adopt matching techniques in...
Trade in Intermediates and the Rise in Wage Inequality in the UK: A GNP Function Approach
This paper contributes to the debate on trade and wages by estimating a GNP function for the United Kingdom using data for the period 1975-1999. Consistent with standard trade theory the GNP function...
Fragmentation, Productivity and Relative Wages in the UK: A General Equilibrium Approach
Feenstra and Hanson (1999) propose a two-stop method to analyse the role of outsourcing and skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in the rise in wage inequality. This paper applies their...
A Bird’s Eye View of International Outsourcing: Data, Measurement and Labour Demand Effects
This paper takes stock of the rapidly expanding literature on international outsourcing. The first part of the paper discusses the appropriateness of different data sources and measures that may be...
Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions and the Role of Trade Costs
Görg, Holger, Hijzen, Alexander, Manchin, Miriam
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have increased dramatically over the last two decades. This paper analyses the role of trade costs in explaining the increase in the number of...
International Outsourcing, Technological Change, and Wage Inequality
This paper analyzes the impact of international outsourcing on UK wage inequality during the 1990s by applying the mandated wage approach proposed by Feenstra and Hanson (1999). The methodology is...
International Fragmentation and Relative Wages in the UK
Hijzen, Alexander, Görg, Holger, Hine, Robert C.
This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects...
International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
Hijzen, Alexander, Görg, Holger, Hine, Robert C.
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK....
Alexander Hijzen, Peter Wright
This study adopts a GNP function approach in order to examine the impact of migrant labour on domestic factors of production in the United Kingdom during the period 1975-1996. We also examine the...
Does offshoring reduce industry employment?
This paper looks at the implications of offshoring for industry employment whilst explicitly accounting for the scale and technology effects of offshoring. The effects of offshoring on employment are...
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and the role of trade costs
Hijzen, Alexander, Görg, Holger, Manchin, Miriam
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have increased dramatically over the last two decades. This paper analyses the role of trade costs in explaining the increase in the number of...
Holger Görg, Alexander Hijzen, Balazs Muraközy
This paper analyses the potential for productivity spillovers from inward foreign direct investment using administrative panel data on firms for Hungary. We hypothesise that the potential for...
Holger Görg, Alexander Hijzen, Balázs Muraközy
This paper analyses the potential for productivity spillovers from inward foreign direct investment using administrative panel data on firms for Hungary. We hypothesise that the potential for...
Offshoring, Labour Market Institutions and the Elasticity of Labour Demand
This paper analyses the evolution of the elasticity of labour demand and the role of offshoring therein using industry-level data for a large number of OECD countries. The first main finding is that...
The Effects at Home of Initiating Production Abroad: Evidence from Matched French Firms
Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Jean, Thierry Mayer
Based on matching techniques in combination with a difference-in-difference estimator, this paper estimates the effects at home of initiating production abroad through the establishment of a foreign...