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engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …
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engage in offshoring; reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. (3) North America may be at the cusp of a …
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. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a "friend" or an "enemy" to domestic …
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Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby firms outsource components of production to foreign markets. There is a high level of concern about unwelcome distributional effects. This paper provides a theoretical...
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International fragmentation, or outsourcing, is often referred to as a distinctly novel feature in today's global … outsourcing targets for western European firms. Against this background this paper provides a policy-oriented discussion of cross … European point of view. Specifically, the paper idetifies conditions under which outsourcing is beneficial for a western …
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outsourcing, or international fragmentation. Economists have investigated this phenomenon with a focus on welfare and factor price … welfare efect of outsourcing. Moreover, the paper highlights a crucial distinction between outsourcing that takes place in an … firms must rely on arms-length trasactions. The results are as follows. a) With foreign direct investment, outsourcing which …
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