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Brachet, Tanguy - 2010

The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...

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The Organization of Innovation : Property Rights and the Outsourcing Decision

Jungbauer, Thomas; Nicholson, Sean; Pan, June; Waldman, … - 2023

analysis of our testable predictions using pharmaceutical data concerning patents, patent expiration, and outsourcing at …

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A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2010

We develop a theory of outsourcing in which there is market power in one factor market (labor) and no market power in a … show there is always outsourcing in the market allocation when a friction limiting outsourcing is not too big. The key … equilibria that vary in the degree of outsourcing. Across these equilibria, wages are lower the greater the degree of outsourcing …

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Outsourcing Tariff Evasion : A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade

Fisman, Raymond J. - 2010

Traditional explanations for indirect trade through an entrepot have focused on savings in transport costs and on the role of specialized agents in processing and distribution. We provide an alternative perspective based on the possibility that entrepots may facilitate tariff evasion. Using data...

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R. - 2010

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Outsourcing Jobs? Multinationals and Us Employment

Harrison, Ann E. - 2010

Critics of globalization claim that US manufacturing firms are being driven to shift employment abroad by the prospects of cheaper labor. Others argue that the availability of low-wage labor has allowed US based firms to survive and even prosper. Yet evidence for either hypothesis, beyond...

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How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry

Novak, Sharon - 2015

vertical integration and different performance margins. Outsourcing facilitates access to cutting-edge technology and the use …. Together, these effects highlight a crucial tradeoff: while outsourcing is associated with higher levels of initial performance …

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Outsourcing When Investments are Specific and Complementary

Lileeva, Alla - 2014

Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing … outsourcing less likely; (ii) complementarities between the investments of the buyer and the seller are also associated with less … outsourcing; (iii) property rights predictions on the link between investment intensities and optimal ownership are only supported …

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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis

Alfaro, Laura - 2015

In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert...

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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John J. - 2017

-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …

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