Similar Search Results

Offshoring, Domestic Outsourcing, and Productivity: Evidence for a Number of European Countries

Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886967

Relocation, offshoring and labour market repercussions : the case of the German automobile industry in Central Europe

Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

The paper raises the proposition that Central Europe?s integration into the international division of labour has added significantly to competitive pressure in the German automobile industry. Based on production and trade data, we trace two dimensions of competitive pressure: relocation of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956002

Globalization of the Automobile Industry ; Traditional Locations under Pressure?

Spatz, Julius; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

Even though the automobile industry is technologically advanced, the increasing integration of low-income countries into the global division of labor has put competitive pressure on traditional automobile producing countries. New end-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103186

Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie: Neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissens- und technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755278

A new method for measuring tail exponents of firm size distributions

Fujimoto, Shouji; Ishikawa, Atushi; Mizuno, Takayuki; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

We propose a new method for estimating the power-law exponent of a firm size variable, such as annual sales. Our focus is on how to empirically identify a range in which a firm size variable follows a power-law distribution. As is well known, a firm size variable follows a power-law distribution...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246868

Do border economies generate comparative advantages for small- and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from the Maquiladora industry

Sander, Birgit - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

Maquiladora assembly emerged to solve a specific problem in a specific region. In the mid 1960s, it was designed to absorb unemployment and to foster industrialization at the US-Mexican border. In the course of its development, it developed considerable dynamics with respect to both regional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276080

Learning by Exporting: Does It Matter Where One Learns?

Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies … new knowledge, exporting to less developed markets should not generate as much productivity growth as exporting to … highest productivity premium and that the ability to benefit from exporting in general and exporting to advanced markets in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886992

Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs: A structural approach

Lapatinas, Athanasios - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper provides a different perspective on the firm-level empirical analysis of the relation between foreign ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a sample of 4672 Belgian firms observed between 2003 and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263001

The export-productivity link for Brazilian manufacturing firms

Cirera, Xavier; Lederman, Daniel; Máñez, Juan A.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over … the period 2000-2008, both under the assumption of an exogenous or an endogenous law of motion for productivity. The … law of motion for productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263003

Production Constraints and the NAIRU

Driver, Ciaran F.; Hall, Stephen G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper argues that the production constraints in the basic NAIRU model should be distinguished by type: capital constraints and labour constraints. It notes the failure to incorporate this phenomenon in standard macro models. Using panel data for UK manufacturing over eighty quarters it is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083405