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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - In: Journal of International Economics 93 (2014) 1, pp. 123-139

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - In: European Economic Review 61 (2013) C, pp. 132-152

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich … individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we … identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task …

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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to …

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European Economic Integration, WTO Membership, Immigration and Offshoring

Kohler, Wilhelm - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

contains a set of theoretical papers on the distributional effects of offshoring. …

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Global sourcing and firm selection

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 411-415

We analyze the sourcing strategies of firms active in the Spanish manufacturing sector. We show that firms that select strategies of vertical integration and of foreign sourcing ex post tend to have been more productive, ex ante, than other firms.

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