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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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Trade in Intermediate Goods and Services

Miroudot, Sébastien; Lanz, Rainer; Ragoussis, Alexandros - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

This study analyses trade flows in intermediate goods and services among OECD countries and with their main trading partners. Combining trade data and input-output tables, bilateral trade in intermediate goods and services is estimated according to the industry of origin and the using industry...

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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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Expanding International Supply Chains : The Role of Emerging Economies in Providing it and Business Process Services

Engman, Michael - 2007

Offshoring of business process services (BPS) and information technology services (ITS) – whether through international … insourcing or international outsourcing – is transforming the way many companies do business. This paper looks at the expansion … the ITS sector, data privacy and security legislation can have a negative effect on international outsourcing. But new …

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The Ending of the Multi-Fibre Agreement and Innovation in Sri Lankan Textile and Clothing Industry: Trade and Innovation Project - Case Study No. 3

Wijayasiri, Janaka; Dissanayake, Jagath - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

This paper is one of five case studies which is a part of a larger project looking at the various effects that trade and investment can have on innovation. This paper studies the effect of the ending of the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) on innovation in the Sri Lankan textile and clothing sector....

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International Production Networks in the Nordic/Baltic Region

Ekholm, Karolina; Hakkala, Katarina - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

the recent changes in measures of offshoring and find that there has been an overall increase since the mid 1990s but that … estimate the relationship between offshoring of intermediate input production and labour demand in Sweden, Finland and Norway … that offshoring to low-income countries is associated with a shift in demand towards workers with a relatively high level …

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