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Overseas links as export conduits
Hanley, Aoife - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between exports and overseas links using data from the UK Community Innovation Survey. Overseas vertical and horizontal links are associated with an average increase in export intensity of 74 and 156 percent for vertical and horizontal overseas links...
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The labor market effects of outsourcing parts and components: adverse Cournot competition
Hübler, Michael - 2009
This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how …
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Globalization of the automobile industry: traditional locations under pressure?
Spatz, Julius; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
, Japan and the United States engaged in outsourcing of relatively labor intensive segments of the value chain, especially on …
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Outsourcing, offshoring and innovation: Evidence from firmlevel data for emerging economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - 2013
It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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