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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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, especially in India. Relatively little is known though about Russian IT provider market. To provide IT decision makers with …
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This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
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Wertschöpfungsanteil, der in deutschen Exporten steckt, zwischen 1995 und 2008 von 13,5 auf 20% gestiegen ist. Somit ist für Deutschland …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …
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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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Ausgehend von der These, dass Arbeit in wissensintensiven Projekten nicht wie standardisierbare Routinearbeit koordiniert und reguliert werden kann, geht die Untersuchung der Frage nach, welche besonderen Herausforderungen sich für Mitarbeiter, Management und Interessenvertretung mit dieser...
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, excepting Russia and most post-Yugoslav countries. Despite weak growth in the EU, exports of the accession countries (and of …
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The transition countries approach EU enlargement with GDP growth outperforming the 'old' EU. In 2003, Poland's economy … some moderate slowdown in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. A definite growth slowdown was only … recorded in Serbia and Montenegro. Russia and Ukraine performed very well, registering significant and balanced growth. The …
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