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Outsourcing und Offshoring in der deutschen Industrie

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 1, pp. 55-77

The extent and structure of outsourcing and offshoring since 1971 is examined in this paper. Official statistics show …. Business cycle influences on the development of outsourcing and offshoring are low. Outsourcing varies by sector and size of … intermediate inputs and the wage ratio suggests that labor costs as a reason to outsourcing has decreased. Also, offshoring has …

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Reshoring in Italy: A recent analysis

Talamo, Giuseppina; Sabatino, Michele - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 381-398

This paper contributes to the emerging literature on reshoring by analysing this return strategy in Italy with a focus on economic resilience. The joint analysis of reshoring and economic resilience is a missing link which could shed some light on the evolution of regional and international...

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A comparative view on the tax performance of developing countries: Regional patterns, non-tax revenue and governance

Ivanyna, Maksym; von Haldenwang, Christian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-32, pp. 1-44

Some countries fail to ensure that their citizens and businesses make an appropriate contribution to the financing of public tasks. But not all countries with a low tax ratio automatically fall into this category. This paper presents an approach to bridge the gap between probabilistic statements...

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The multilateral donor non-system: towards accountability and efficient role assignment

Reisen, Helmut - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-5, pp. 1-22

Global governance refers to several pillars; one important pillar is the multilateral aid architecture. Its reform can be discussed under the perspectives of representativeness, inclusiveness, and efficiency (of aid delivery). A prerequisite for efficient aid delivery is to map the rising...

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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...

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Accounting Offshoring: The Role of Emotional Intelligence

Gupta, Gaurav; Salter, Stephen B.; Lewis, Philip A. - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 18 (2019) 2, pp. 145-172

Indians and explore the potential impacts of these differences in the offshoring relationships. Motivation: The continued … business process offshoring. U.S. companies, including accounting firms, routinely offshore a variety of their business … functions to India. However, the effective functioning of these offshoring relationships has been offset by perceptions of the …

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Foreign direct investment and onshore employment dynamics: Evidence from German firms with affiliates in the Czech Republic

Koerner, Konstantin; Moritz, Michael; Schäffler, Johannes - In: The World Economy 45 (2021) 6, pp. 1773-1829

In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational...

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Offshoring and labor markets in developing countries

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H. - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)

international trade. Offshoring-the cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services which facilitate country …

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Effect of international activity on firm performance

Wagner, Joachim - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...

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Offshoring and the migration of jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …

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