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What is the impact of labor displacement on management consulting services?

General Economics 2021-01-01 v1 Economics

Abstract

Labor displacement off-or nearshore is a performance improvement instrument that currently sparks a lot of interest in the service sector. This article proposes a model to understand the consequences of such a decision on management consulting firms. Its calibration on the market of consulting services for the German transportation industry highlights that, under realistic assumptions, labor displacement translates in price decrease by-0.5% on average per year and that for MC practices to remain competitive/profitable they have to at least increase the amount of work they off/nears shore by +0.7% a year.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15144,
  title  = {What is the impact of labor displacement on management consulting services?},
  author = {Edouard Ribes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15144},
  year   = {2021}
}