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"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …
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reshoring or offshoring. When the demand elasticity rises with price, two policy instruments generally are needed to achieve …
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not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …
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tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …
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Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced …-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress. Offshoring induces skill … relevant case, starting from low levels, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition with falling real wages …
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We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …
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important aspects of global supply chain relationships: supply chain integration and collaboration; outsourcing and offshoring … customer power on supply chain integration and performance / Xiande Zhao ... [et al.] -- 10. Offshoring process / Dmitrij … Slepniov, Brian Waehrens, Hiroshi Katayama -- 11. Impact of strategic outsourcing on operational control / Rob Dekkers -- 12. A …
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"This book is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics …General views of logistics, outsourcing, and logistics outsourcing / Leonidas Baziotopoulos -- A framework for the … management of logistics outsourcing life cycle / Dimitris Folinas -- Contracting for logistics services: a critical appraisal of …
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that credit unions choose: one is a partial form of outsourcing while the other is more complete. This allows us to …
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