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Globalisation and Labour Markets Research Paper 2004 / 37 Labour Demand Effects of International Outsourcing : Evidence From Plant Level Data

We examine empirically the effect of international outsourcing on labour demand at the level of the individual plant. We do so by estimating a dynamic model of plant level labour demand, using a Generalised Method of Moments estimator. We use plant level data for the Irish Electronics sector, an industry that has expanded rapidly over the last decade and that has witnessed significant offshorin...

EATCS Bulletin, Number 84, October 2004, viii+258 pp

Railway optimization problems have been studied from a mathematical programming perspective for decades. This approach is particularly well suited to model the multitude of constraints that typically arises in the context of a railway system. In recent years, these problems have attracted some attention in the algorithms community, with a focus on individual problem aspects, in an attempt to un...

International Trade and Labour Markets

This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute to the literature on international trade and labour markets. The first essay studies the interaction between economic integration, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand in a model of international oligopoly. As trade barriers are dismantled foreign competition intensifies. Competing enterprises respond by investing mo...

Induction of labour: review.

This document reflects emerging clinical and scientific advances on the date issued and is subject to change. The information should not be construed as dictating an exclusive course of treatment or procedure to be followed. Local institutions can dictate amendments to these opinions. They should be well documented if modified at the local level. None of these contents may be reproduced in any ...

Labour Market Polarization: Canada in International Perspective