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We develop a model in which a worker's skills determine the worker's current wage and sector. Both the market and the worker are initially uncertain about some of the worker's skills. Endogenous wage changes and sector mobility occur as labor-market participants learn about these unobserved...
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We locate the comparative advantages of Canada and Europe on the basis of their fundamentals only: endowments, technologies, and preferences. A linear program with an input-output core and an algorith for the balance of payments constraint will determine the efficient allocation of resources....
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Une entreprise doit-elle faire elle-même ou faire faire : doit-elle utiliser ses ressources financières et son know-how organisationnel pour exécuter une tâche ou en confier l'exécution à une autre entreprise (possiblement spécialisée dans cette activité) ? Quand elle décide de faire...
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administrative support services. Two reorganization strategies were analyzed: shared services and outsourcing. The first approach …
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Information Systems (IS) researchers often rely on organizational economics models to describe and explain various IS management issues. While those models are found to be useful, measures are yet to be proposed to assess the dimensions of IS transactions. In this paper, we present the results...
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In this paper, we develop and estimate an explanatory model of Human Resources Outsourcing. Six HR activities are … of outsourcing are drawn from two fields: the field of organizational analysis and strategy formulation, and that from … experience of the organization with outsourcing of other functions, the uncertainty of the transaction, and the presence of a …
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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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We use agency theory to shed light on a complex, multi-year outsourcing contract between an important public …
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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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