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To Offshore or Nearshore IT services? An investigation using transaction cost theory
Trampel, Julia - EconWPA - 2004
The phenomenon of offshoring, that is, the outsourcing of highly- qualified services into low wage countries was until … the controversial issue of the advantageousness of offshoring. The trend, which has been enforced by numerous consultants … validity. The following paper deals with the advantageousness of offshoring in the case of IT services. In order to detach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134437
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Why Do Voters Demand Universal Government Benefits?
Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2005
recipients. I use a model of tax and spending incidence for Canada in 1990 to see which conjecture helps best to understand the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126005
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ESTRATEGIAS CUANTITATIVAS DE VALOR Y RETORNOS POR ACCION DE LARGO
Rubio, Fernando - EconWPA - 2005
más importantes empresas que componen el mercado de Canadá, España, Europa, USA y Gran Bretaña. Se utiliza la metodología …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134921
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Distributive Politics in a Strong Party System: Evidence from Canadian Job Grant Programs
Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002
The distributive politics literature following Weingast (1979) predicts majoritarian redistribution within countries governed by strong party systems. This prediction is tested using evidence from Canadian job creation grant programs active during the mid-1990s. Results provide strong evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135103
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Testing and Estimating Persistence in Canadian Unemployment.
Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003
A vital implication of unemployment persistence applies to the Bank of Canada's disinflation policies since it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062535
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On the Evidence of Non-Linear Structure in Canadian Unemployment.
Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment. Contrary to the conclusion reached in Murray et al. (1993), and using a corrected for bias simple non-parametric test (SNT), we reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412624
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The Efficiency of Canadian Capital Markets: Some Bank of Canada Research
Hendry, Scott; King, Michael R. - EconWPA - 2004
Bank of Canada is interested in the efficient functioning of capital markets through each of its responsibilities for … conducted thus far suggests that Canadian capital markets are efficient for a capital market of Canada's size but are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413072
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Understanding Social Capital: Its Nature and Manifestiations in Rural Canada
Reimer, Bill - EconWPA - 2005
each type. Using national community and household data collected as part of a research project on rural Canada (The New …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118864
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Democracy of Pressure Groups
Bhandari, Jayant - EconWPA - 2003
· The report contains positive references to profit, capital, liberty and freedom (including free-market economy), and the struggle of the world’s poor in the developing world – if we dared, and cared to ask them, that is, to achieve these. These references might be too sacrilegious to be...
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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES
SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004
Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076600