Search Results - subject:"International Outsourcing"

International outsourcing and the skill-specific wage bill in Eastern Europe

Egger, Peter; Stehrer, Robert - 2001

The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of skill-specific real wage bills in manufacturing of three Central and East European countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic). Both intermediate goods exports and imports of...

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Market concentration and international outsourcing

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001

This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients between the intermediate goods import intensity and...

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International trade in intermediate inputs : the case of the automobile industry

Diehl, Markus - 2001

International trade statistics and input-output tables are analyzed in order to test the hypothesis that international production networks have become more relevant. The share of imported inputs in the gross output value of the motor vehicle industry has grown significantly during the last two...

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International Trade in Intermediate Inputs: The Case of the Automobile Industry

Diehl, Markus - 2001

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International Outsourcing and the Skill-Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe

Egger, Peter; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2001

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International Trade in Intermediate Inputs: The Case of the Automobile Industry

Diehl, Markus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

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A Complete Characterization of the Distributional Effects of International Outsourcing in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - CESifo - 2001

This paper determines the distributional effects of internationaloutsourcing in a two sector Heckscher-Ohlin type model. It isshown that the factor-biased and the sector-biased impact ofinternational outsourcing discussed in the literature can be seenas special cases of the more general...

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International Outsourcing of Services: What Role for Central and East European Countries?

Stare, Metka; Rubalcaba, Luis - In: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 45 (2009) 5, pp. 31-46

-15 companies' preference for the CEECs when deciding on the location for international outsourcing of services. Increased … specialization within the enlarged European Union could bring greater benefits from the international outsourcing of services …

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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - In: Journal of International Economics 77 (2009) 1, pp. 109-119

higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical reconciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many … - will increase incentives for international outsourcing. …

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Globalisation and employment in the EU electrical industry : a case study with emphasis on Germany

Diehl, Markus - 2000

The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...

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