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We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour … sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and wages?We show …
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This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advanceswhich pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under thefollowing (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turnto a task-based...
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We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and …
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We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing inthe firm’s expectation of …
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-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree oftax progression by …
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abroad, and where outsourcing issubstitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount ofresources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …
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We express a doubt on the conventional wisdom namely, of a positive relationship between wage and productivity, of a formal sector firm in a developing economy where the firm can either go for subcontracting to the informal sector to minimize wage cost along with apprehension of extra-legal cost...
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Using firm-level data on offshoring of Korean manufacturers, the paper examines the relationship between firm heterogeneity and the probability of adopting offshoring. The results of the paper suggest that firm productivity may not be an important determinant for Korean firms offshoring...
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This paper analyses the implications of differing global demographic trends for Indias competitiveness in outsourcing … growth rate and occupy all segments of global outsourcing and offshoring activities. India has used the labor cost advantage …
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integrated manufacturing firms in developed economies and, at the same time, to an increase in outsourcing of these same services …
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