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Peter Egger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • international outsourcing and the productivity of low skilled labor in the eu
    Social Science Research Network, 2006
    Co-Authors: Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger
    Abstract:

    This article presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of Low-Skilled Workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per Low-Skilled Worker, the long-run parameter estimates reveal a positive impact. This may be explained by imperfections in European labor and goods markets, which prohibit an immediate adjustment in the factor employment and the output structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 6.0% in the real value added per Low-Skilled Worker.

  • international outsourcing and the productivity of low skilled labor in the eu
    Economic Inquiry, 2006
    Co-Authors: Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger
    Abstract:

    This article presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of Low-Skilled Workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per Low-Skilled Worker, the long-run parameter estimates reveal a positive impact. This may be explained by imperfections in European labor and goods markets, which prohibit an immediate adjustment in the factor employment and the output structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 6.0% in the real value added per Low-Skilled Worker. (JEL C33, F14, F15)

  • international outsourcing and the productivity of low skilled labour in the eu
    Research Papers in Economics, 2001
    Co-Authors: Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger
    Abstract:

    This article presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of Low-Skilled Workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per Low-Skilled Worker, the long-run parameter estimates reveal a positive impact. This may be explained by imperfections in European labor and goods markets, which prohibit an immediate adjustment in the factor employment and the output structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 6.0% in the real value added per Low-Skilled Worker. (JEL C33, F14, F15) Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

Hartmut Egger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • international outsourcing and the productivity of low skilled labor in the eu
    Social Science Research Network, 2006
    Co-Authors: Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger
    Abstract:

    This article presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of Low-Skilled Workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per Low-Skilled Worker, the long-run parameter estimates reveal a positive impact. This may be explained by imperfections in European labor and goods markets, which prohibit an immediate adjustment in the factor employment and the output structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 6.0% in the real value added per Low-Skilled Worker.

  • international outsourcing and the productivity of low skilled labor in the eu
    Economic Inquiry, 2006
    Co-Authors: Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger
    Abstract:

    This article presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of Low-Skilled Workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per Low-Skilled Worker, the long-run parameter estimates reveal a positive impact. This may be explained by imperfections in European labor and goods markets, which prohibit an immediate adjustment in the factor employment and the output structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 6.0% in the real value added per Low-Skilled Worker. (JEL C33, F14, F15)

  • international outsourcing and the productivity of low skilled labour in the eu
    Research Papers in Economics, 2001
    Co-Authors: Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger
    Abstract:

    This article presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of Low-Skilled Workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per Low-Skilled Worker, the long-run parameter estimates reveal a positive impact. This may be explained by imperfections in European labor and goods markets, which prohibit an immediate adjustment in the factor employment and the output structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 6.0% in the real value added per Low-Skilled Worker. (JEL C33, F14, F15) Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press. (This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

De Vlieger Pieter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Essays on Personnel and Health Economics
    2020
    Co-Authors: De Vlieger Pieter
    Abstract:

    This dissertation examines the importance of incentive schemes or personnel policies in three distinct labor markets. The first essay answers the following question: How important are patient and physician-specific factors in explaining persistent prescription behavior? A wide range of research has suggested that prescription behavior is highly persistent and an important barrier to realizing cost savings, but the sources of this persistence are not well understood. I quantify the importance of physician and patient factors in physician prescription behavior by exploiting a policy mandate in Belgium requiring physicians to prescribe a minimum percentage of cheap drugs, using detailed administrative data on 24 million prescription drugs dispensed to 152,000 patients. First, I show that physicians increase the prescription rate of generics for first-time users of an active ingredient by 10 percentage points. They do so without compromising on quality of dispensed drugs. Second, I find that first-time patients are more likely to receive a generic than long-time patient are likely to be switched from a branded to a generic drug, suggesting physicians consider the latter costly to switch. I find that switching a patient indeed comes at a cost, measured in decreased medication adherence. Building on this reduced form evidence, I develop and estimate a structural model. I use the model estimates to simulate the entry of generics and find physician and patient factors are about equally important in explaining the slow adoption of generics. Requiring pharmacists to only dispense generics decreases welfare, unless patient considerations are decreased by at least 60%. In a second essay, I estimate the effect of domestic outsourcing events on wages of Workers remaining in outsourcing establishments. I use employer-employee linked data from Germany that includes detailed administrative information on earnings, industry and occupation of employment. I exploit outsourcing event as my main source of identification and find substantial effects on the wages of Workers that stay: holding Worker ability constant, high skilled Workers receive, on average, an immediate wage increase of about five log points, while low skilled Worker face a wage cut of about one log points. On average, wage increases enjoyed by high skilled Workers are positively correlated with changes in the skill ratio within the establishment. I propose a new theoretical model of wage setting in which fairness considerations generate spillover effects that are consistent with these two empirical findings. Taken together, these results indicate fairness considerations may play a role in wage setting. In a third essay, co-authored with Kevin Stange and Brian Jacob, we investigate the role of instructors in promoting student success. We explore this issue in the context of the University of Phoenix, a large for-profit university that offers both online and in-person courses in a wide array of fields and degree programs. We focus on instructors in the college algebra course that is required for all BA degree program students. We find substantial variation in student performance across instructors both in the current class and subsequent classes. Variation is larger for in-person classes, but is still substantial for online courses. Effectiveness grows modestly with course-specific teaching experience, but is unrelated to pay. Our results suggest that personnel policies for recruiting, developing, motivating, and retaining effective postsecondary instructors may be a key, yet underdeveloped, tool for improving institutional productivity.PHDEconomicsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155077/1/pdvl_1.pd