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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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Offshoring sector in Poland
Katarzyna, Budzyńska - 2014
Companies across industries gain the competitive advantage by outsourcing and offshoring. Developing countries are … becoming the attractive locations for the BPO/SSC enterprises. The article reviews the definition of outsourcing and offshoring … literature on outsourcing and offshoring. The article presents a preliminary analysis of offshoring sector in Poland. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011974
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Outsourcing and employment : a decomposition approach
Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - 2008
In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392237
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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242847
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Understanding the decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Houseman, Susan N. - 2018 - Revised June 2018
U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many economists and other analysts - pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output growth has largely kept pace with private sector real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011857530
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213481
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Interlocking margins : a framework on the interaction of offshoring and outsourcing decisions
Jiang, Edwin - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586471
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Drivers of deindustrialisation : sub-system analysis of internationally fragmented production structures
Lábaj, Martin; Stracová, Erika - 2019
countries the level of outsourcing reached its limits at the beginning of the new millennium. At the same time, the offshoring … expenditures approach that allows us to consistently analyse the role of i) outsourcing, ii) offshoring and iii) changes in final …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125631
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OM Forum - benchmarking global production sourcing decisions : where and why firms offshore and reshore
Cohen, Morris A.; Cui, Shiliang; Ernst, Ricardo; … - 2017
engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864779
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How the past of outsourcing and offshoring is the future of post-pandemic remote work : a typology, a model, and a review
Erickson, Christopher L.; Norlander, Peter - 2021
possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing, remote work, virtual companies, and platforms. A model illustrates how new … a review of the outsourcing and offshoring literature provides instructive examples of how features of the model will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603416