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How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...
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The shift towards a "factory-free" economy has drawn the attention of policy makers in North America and Europe. Some politicians have articulated alarming views, initiating mercantilist or 'beggar-thy-neighbour' cost-competitiveness policies. Yet companies that concentrate research and design...
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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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outsourcing grew at rates experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where … outsourcing (1) would switch 4-digit occupations 2 percent less often, (2) would spend 0.1 percent less time unemployed, and (3 …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider …
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There is considerable debate over whether international trade has contributed to the declining economic fortunes of … and how these responses, in turn, are transmitted to the labor market. In previous work, we have argued that outsourcing … input purchases from the Census of Manufactures. We construct industry-by-industry estimates of outsourcing for the period …
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Slaughter (1993), in this paper I try to determine the extent to which outsourcing by multinational corporations contributed to … firms. I find that most of these facts are inconsistent with widespread outsourcing. Second, to test more rigorously whether … and in fact may be price complements. Taken together, these findings indicate that multinational outsourcing contributed …
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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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reduce the relative prevalence of FDI or foreign outsourcing. The impact on the composition of offshoring depends on whether …We generalize the Antras and Helpman (2004) model of the international organization of production in order to … of these organizational forms. Better contracting institutions in the South raise the prevalence of offshoring, but may …
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This paper reviews the political uproar over offshore outsourcing connected with the release of the Economic Report of … offshore outsourcing, and assesses the empirical evidence on the importance of offshore outsourcing in accounting for the weak … offshore outsourcing is unlikely to have accounted for a meaningful part of the job losses in the recent downturn or …
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We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …
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