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-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …
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We model a simple market setting in which fragmentation of trade of the same asset across multiple exchanges improves allocative efficiency. Fragmentation reduces the inhibiting effect of price-impact avoidance on order submission. Although fragmentation reduces market depth on each exchange, it...
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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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The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …
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Striking evidence is presented of a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialization. We offer an explanation showing that this transformation is inextricably interrelated with changes in firms' organization. A greater variety of...
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Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...
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-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …
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distribution program. This led 17 percent of treated locations to switch distributors. Introducing the possibility of outsourcing …Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks … cheating were also more likely to block the outsourcing process. We find no effect on price or quality of providing information …
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