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Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration
Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when being vertically integrated with a supplier may well decide to buy certain components from this supplier even at a lower quality than that offered by external sources. When the...
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'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose Enrique; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
integration to changes in other relevant plant characteristics. We show that increases in outsourcing of services are positively …
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Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment
Böheim, René; Muehlberger, Ulrike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that these dependent self-employed lose their rights under labour law, receive less favourable benefits...
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Outsourcing and Technological Innovations: A Firm-Level Analysis
Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing … expensive than outsourcing. The model therefore provides an explanation for the recent increases in outsourcing that have taken … model, namely, that all other things equal, the demand for outsourcing increases with the probability of technological …
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North-South Trade Liberalization and Returns to Skill in the South: The Case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam; Otero, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...
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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...
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Immigration and Trade Creation for the U.S.: The Role of Immigrant Occupation
Mundra, Kusum - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the...
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income
Mundra, Kusum - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and...
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher …
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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this...
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