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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777491
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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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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181377
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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765950
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Do Large Cabinets Favor Large Governments? Evidence from Swiss Sub-Federal Jurisdictions
Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Feld, Lars P. - CESifo - 2004
interact with fragmentation in determining government size. The empirical study of the role of fragmented governments for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094240
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136006
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Sorting into Outsourcing : Are Profits Taxed at a Gorilla's Arm's Length?
Bauer, Christian - 2012
into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098653
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154267
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Optimal Income Taxation, Outsourcing and Policy Cooperation in a Dynamic Economy
Aronsson, Thomas - 2009
production to the other. In the country whose firms outsource production abroad, the government will respond to outsourcing by … the absence of outsourcing. The tax policy response by the government in the country that receives foreign production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156230