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Topics Labour and Migration Outsourcing and skills an empirical investigation (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer; pp. 15 …-20) Keywords outsourcing, labour, skills, specialization Countries covered European Union, New EU Member States, Asia, USA Topics …
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discussion of the impact of global economic integration upon labour markets the impact of outsourcing upon wage structures and … upon productivity, the effects of NAFTA upon the US, Mexican and Canadian economies, the issue of outsourcing in services …
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Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on...
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outsourcing in the Austrian economy over the periods 1995-2000 and 2000-2005. Based on an input-output framework, we apply a … coefficients and final demand components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates …
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particular we look at the role of outsourcing in the process of trade integration of these countries. Further we discuss the … particularly for processed inputs and parts production are interpreted in a catching-up framework combined with outsourcing High … hypothesis that geographic proximity is important for outsourcing activities. …
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administrative support services. Two reorganization strategies were analyzed: shared services and outsourcing. The first approach …
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outsourcing. We demonstrate that the hold-up friction under generic outsourcing increases with a firm's productivity. This implies … that: (i) high productivity firms choose ideal outsourcing to the South, (ii) medium productivity firms choose generic … outsourcing to the South, (iii) low productivity firms choose generic outsourcing to the North. Cet article étudie le rôle de la …
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In recent decades, complex manufacturing sectors such as electronics have transformed from an industry dominated by vertically integrated firms that source locally to an industry dominated by horizontally specialized firms that source globally. To account for this, we build an two-country...
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We show that the growth of the service sector facilitates outsourcing, or fragmentation of production. Services link …
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This paper studies the relationships between the choice of a sourcing mode for information systems, the value of the resources used in systems development activities and the presence of those resources at sufficient level within the firm. The objective is to better understand the factors...
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