Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effects
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Offshoring; Firm-level data; Linked employer-employee data; Employment; Skills; Wages;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INT-2019-11-25 (International Trade)
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