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Industry price effects of offshore outsourcing
Wamboye, Evelyn - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 2 (2009) 1, pp. 71-108
Within the Stolper-Samuelson (SS) framework, a vast empirical literature has developed around the issue of determining the shift in the labour market fundamentals. These studies suffer a host of shortcomings. In an attempt to transcend those shortcomings, this paper analyses the short and long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008539608
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Captive offshoring by US multinationals: measuring the domestic employment impacts of vertical FDI
Mullen, J.K.; Williams, Martin - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 21-34
The complex nature of ‘international outsourcing’ makes it difficult to quantify its employment and broader impacts on national economies. Indeed, available evidence on the extent of ‘offshoring’ by US firms is scant, rendering analyses of its economic impacts as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130192
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Industry price effects of offshore outsourcing
Wamboye, Evelyn - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 2 (2009) 1, pp. 71-108
Within the Stolper-Samuelson (SS) framework, a vast empirical literature has developed around the issue of determining the shift in the labour market fundamentals. These studies suffer a host of shortcomings. In an attempt to transcend those shortcomings, this paper analyses the short and long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754168
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Study of efficiency trends and productivity changes in the US TL carriers: 2000-2009
Pai, Dinesh R. - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 3 (2011) 4, pp. 234-267
In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668795
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Particulars of US Information Technology and productivity: lessons for Europe
Adekola, Abel; Sergi, Bruno S. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 1 (2008) 2, pp. 128-143
There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008539603
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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade
Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003
been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407855
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Financial and alternative choices in personal transportation habits
Smith, Alan D. - In: International Journal of Electronic Finance 4 (2010) 3, pp. 236-268
An empirical study was conducted of employed professionals, representative of the marketing and financial services industry located within the metropolitan section of Pittsburgh, PA, resulting in 191 useable questionnaires. The thrust was to investigate the degree of seriousness on the part of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755371
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Particulars of US Information Technology and productivity: lessons for Europe
Adekola, Abel; Sergi, Bruno S. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 1 (2008) 2, pp. 128-143
There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754165
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Auswirkungen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik auf die zukünftige Beschäftigung in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft
Gerstenberger, Wolfgang - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 44 (1991) 30, pp. 08-17
Beschäftigungseffekts resultiert aus der relativen Schwäche der europäischen IKT-Industrie, auf die steigende Nachfrage mit einem adäquaten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055820
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Introduction to the mechanical and electrical engineering sectors of new EU member states
Vieweg, Hans-Günther; Kuhlmann, Andreas; Bambullis, … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate General "Enterprise and Industry" and was completed at the end of 2005. The objective was to investigate the impact of the accession of new member states on the intra-European division of labour and on global competitiveness in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791351