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Trade in Intermediate Goods and Services

Miroudot, Sébastien; Lanz, Rainer; Ragoussis, Alexandros - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

This study analyses trade flows in intermediate goods and services among OECD countries and with their main trading partners. Combining trade data and input-output tables, bilateral trade in intermediate goods and services is estimated according to the industry of origin and the using industry...

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Innovation and the geographical and functional dimensions of outsourcing: An empirical investigation based on Italian firm level data

Cusmano, Lucia; Mancasi, Maria Luisa; Morrison, Andrea - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008

are strongly regionally embedded and that offshoring is still a limited phenomenon. Outsourcing strategies are shown to …The paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing in the Lombardy region and relates them to the … probability of introducing product and process innovation. Based on a large firm-level survey, we show that outsourcing processes …

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Outsourcing and Skill Imports: Foreign High-Skilled Workers on H-1B and L-1 Visas in the United States

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005

This working paper looks in detail at the H-1B and L-1 visa programs for temporary employment in the United States. Based on official data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the US Department of State, H-1B and L-1 visa issuance rapidly increased in the late 1990s, followed by...

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Two essays on Hungarian relocations

Sass, Magdolna; Szanyi, Miklós - 2012

Relocation is recently one of the most widely discussed problems, especially in the old member states of the European Union. At the same time, developments in the target countries of relocation are less widely discussed. Hungary, with other new EU member countries, is one of the net target...

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Innovation and the geographical and functional dimensions of outsourcing: An empirical investigation based on Italian firm level data.

Cusmano, Lucia; Mancusi, Maria Luisa; Morrison, Andrea - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2007

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Globalisation of production and innovation: how outsourcing is reshaping an advanced manufacturing area.

Cusmano, Lucia; Mancusi, Maria Luisa; Morrison, Andrea - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2006

particular, the international dimension of outsourcing, off-shoring, has been attracting great attention, as it leads to the …Pervasive outsourcing is transforming business models and productive relations in advanced manufacturing areas. In … countries in the international division of labour. The present paper investigates the diversified patterns of outsourcing and …

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Outsourcing and Offshoring: Pushing the European Model Over the Hill, Rather Than Off the Cliff!

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005

Offshoring and offshore outsourcing is increasingly affecting the EU-15, both in the manufacturing and services sectors … limited extent of perhaps up to 2 percent of the workforce as affected. Offshoring and offshore outsourcing, similar to other … offshoring and offshore outsourcing, if they go ahead and implement the EU Lisbon Agenda with respect to labor market reforms and …

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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT?

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...

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Domestic Employment Effects of Offshoring: Empirical Evidence from Finland

Deschryvere, Matthias; Kotiranta, Annu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account : offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring … depends on the offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment …, whereas in-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing …

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