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"Servicification of Manufacturing - Evidence from Swedish Firm and Enterprise Group Level Data"

Lodefalk, Magnus - 2010

The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...

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Firms and skills: The evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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Make-or-buy decisions and the manipulability of performance measures

Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2009

The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple framework combining contractual incompleteness with the existence of imperfect but contractible performance measures. Contractual incompleteness gives rise to two regimes, identified with make and buy. The performance measure on which...

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On the Cost-vs-Quality Tradeoff in Make-or-Buy Decisions

Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2010

The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple two-task principal-agent model. There is a cost-saving/quality tradeoff in effort provision. The principal faces a dichotomous choice between weak ("make") and strong ("buy") cost-saving incentives for the agent; the dichotomy is due to an...

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik - 2011

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

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The electronics industry in central and eastern Europe:an emerging production location in the alignment ofnetworks perspective

Radošević, Slavo - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2002

This paper analyses the emergence of central Europe as a new location for the productionof electronics. The main factors that drive integration in the region into global productionnetworks are also analysed, as well as prospects for upgrading the industry by using networkalignment...

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The hidden MSE service sector : research into commercial BDS provision to micro and small enterprises in Viet Nam and Thailand

Anderson, Gavin - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2000

Based on surveys of 300 micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) and 20 business development service (BDS) providers in Thailand and Viet Nam. Examines the types of services provided and identifies different methods of service provision: purchased services, services provided on a commission...

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Economic and social effects of export processing zones in Costa Rica

Jenkins, Mauricio - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2005

Provides an overview on the regional impact of EPZ activity during the period 1989-2002, with particular reference to the reduced dependence on traditional exports, generating export revenues, and providing jobs. Studies econometrically which types of enterprises most likely generate backward...

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Homeworkers in Paraguay

Heikel, María Victoria - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2000

Based on data from Encuesta de hogares de 1996 del Direccion General de Estadistica, Encuestas y Censos (DGEEyC).

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Industrias de maquila, zonas procesadoras de exportacion: y empresas multinacionales en Costa Rica y El Salvador.

G, Pavez Hermosilla - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1987

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