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Global sourcing : towards an empirical test of the hold-up model ; conference paper
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2013
We use Spanish firm-level data to test the hold-up model of global sourcing proposed by Antr s & Helpman (2004). We propose a novel representation of the model which guides us in bringing the theory to the data. We estimate a discrete choice model of firms' sourcing behavior, separately for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336794
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Information systems outsourcing : enduring themes, emergent patterns and future directions
Hirschheim, Rudy A. (ed.); Heinzl, Armin (contributor);  … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001647402
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Outsourcing potentials and international tradability of jobs : evidence from German micro-level data ; conference paper
Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - 2013
between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343756
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Geopolitics, aid and growth : conference paper
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy s effort, and change the power structure in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487721
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International trade in services and intangibles in the era of globalization
Reinsdorf, Marshall B. (contributor);  … - 2009
motion picture services / Gordon H. Hanson and Chong Xiang -- Comment: Phillip McCalman -- Offshoring of services -- Does … service offshoring lead to job losses? Evidence from the united states / Mary Amiti and Shang-jin Wei -- Comment: Robert C …. Feenstra -- Outsourcing and imported services in BEA's industry accounts / Robert E. Yuskavage, Erich H. Strassner, and Gabriel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754056
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Special issue: Relocation of production and jobs to Central and Eastern Europe : who gains and who loses?
Landesmann, Michael (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003644822
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Global capitalism unbound : winners and losers from offshore outsourcing
Paus, Eva A. (contributor); Paus, Eva (ed.) - 2007 - 1. publ.
Winners and losers from offshore outsourcing : what is to be done? / Eva Paus -- The challenge of the growing … globalization of labor markets to economic and social policy / Richard Freeman -- Offshoring and labor recommodification in the ….S. services offshoring : a critical view / William Milberg, Rudi von Arnim, Melissa Mahoney, Markus Schneider -- Bargaining power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003426665
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Offshoring and the internationalization of employment : a challenge for a fair globalization? ; Proceedings of the France/ILO Symposium, 2005, Annecy
Auer, Peter (ed.); Besse, Geneviève (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299461
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The factory-free economy : outsourcing, servitization, and the future of industry
Fontagné, Lionel (ed.); Harrison, Ann E. (ed.) - 2017 - First edition
De-industrialization, accelerated by the financial crisis, is a long term process. The comparative advantage of emerging economies shifted towards more advanced goods and their growing populations commanded an increasing share in global demand. This shift towards a factory-free economy in high...
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