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We study cross-country differences in price and quality in the market for semiconductor wafer manufacturing services. Using a proprietary transaction-level data set, we document i) substantial constant-quality price differences across suppliers, and ii) shifts toward lower priced suppliers....
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This paper studies price and quality differences across international intermediate input suppliers. We develop price measures that account for (i) differences in product characteristics, (ii) unobserved quality differences, and (iii) pure (frictional) price dispersion across suppliers. Using...
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This paper studies price and quality differences across international intermediate input suppliers. We develop price measures that account for (i) differences in product characteristics, (ii) unobserved quality differences, and (iii) pure (frictional) price dispersion across suppliers. Using...
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Offshore outsourcing of work to support software development and services is seen primarily as a transfer of labor to … relationships of IP residing in software to the business models used for outsourcing. The use of a quantitative model for software …
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The concept of offshoring of professional services first gained attention slightly over 25 years ago. At that time, US … labor aspects of offshoring and its direct impact on employment opportunities in the countries involved. This paper broadens … this perspective by emphasizing that the key drivers for offshoring will be strategic, not economic, over time. A formal …
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hard look at cost numbers before embarking on outsourcing. Apart from the cost of labor, equipment, and incidentals, are … needed to address the above types of questions, as well as other outsourcing related questions, such as: * What is the United … States doing to encourage/discourage outsourcing? Are these actions legal under current international trading rules? * Is the …
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convinced that cost considerations should reign as the predominant decision-making factor; others argue that outsourcing means … permanent job loss; and still others believe outsourcing makes U.S. goods and services more competitive in the global … marketplace. We assert that if outsourcing options need to be analyzed in detail with critical objectivity in order to derive …
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