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Outsourcing, importing and innovation : evidence from firm-level data for emerging economies

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Shift working and trade in labor services with time zone differences

Kikuchi, Tōru; Long, Ngo Van - 2011

Using a two-factor (labor and capital), two-good (shift-working and non shiftworking commodities) model with two countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via communication networks) on the comparative advantage of...

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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?

Lommerud, Kjell Erik (contributor); … - 2005

. Such outsourcing leads to increased wages for the remaining inhouse production. We find that stronger unions, which imply … higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical reconciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many …

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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2003 - Updated version March 2004

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