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This paper analyzes the offshoring strategy from an empirical view. It focuses on a set of models, extracts a set of … French manufacturing firms that provides detailed information on the offshoring strategy. The choice of offshoring modes is …
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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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The objective of this study is to review international experience in offshore wind power development and draw on the lessons learned from the experience of different countries. To date, that experience has predominantly been limited to Europe. Significantly different regulatory and physical...
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In view of the escalating global problems associated with the environment, energy, and natural resources, especially the increasing sign of global climate change, wind power is receiving more and more high-level attention on a global scale, and it has reached a rapid rate of development as a...
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This roadmap provides strategic analysis of the offshore wind development potential in the Philippines, considering the opportunities and challenges under different, hypothetical growth scenarios. The goal is to provide evidence to support the Government of the Philippines in establishing...
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determinants of the choice between vertical integration and outsourcing at the international level. Our results show that the … significance of the inputs in the cost share of the firm. Our findings provide support for the property right models of offshoring …
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product of Japanese MNEs offshoring production and shutting plants that are relative to others in their industry, high …
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Offshoring has received a lot of attention lately. However, the debate is largely confined to the static effects. This … paper shows that there are important implications of offshoring on the growth rate in an economy. In this paper I show that … offshoring a larger share of unskilled workers tasks, has an ambiguous effect on the growth rate of the economy. Recent work on …
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We provide the first firm-level evidence of the impact of the trade in producer services (“offshoring”) on the labour …
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