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Globalization, outsourcing, and wage inequality
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000561378
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Digitization and the contract labor market : a research agenda
Agrawal, Ajay; Horton, John J.; Lacetera, Nicola; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200100
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Acquiring knowledge within and across firm boundaries : evidence from clinical development
Azoulay, Pierre - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001825856
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120903
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...
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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2021
The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to lowwage economies. This trend … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …) it increases inequality among high- and low-income groups; and (iii) the gains from outsourcing can be made Pareto …
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