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One of the top priorities to improve the European Union's growth performance is the creation ofsingle market for services. The directive on services adopted by the Parliament and the Council by the end of 2006 aims at removing barriers to the free movement of service providers on the internal...
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Mit dem Outsourcing von Personalfunktionen und -prozessen wird in der Unternehmenspraxis versucht, Kosten- und … Flexibilisierungsvorteile zu generieren. Während die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung zu den Determinanten von Outsourcing-Aktivitäten weit … vorangeschritten ist, sind empirische Studien zu den Wirkungen von Outsourcing allerdings noch immer selten. Insbesondere Effekte auf …
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This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors … labor market turnover. Increases in imports, terms of trade and, especially, in the outsourcing share negatively affect the …
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sort into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply …
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The paper analyzes how international outsourcing affected individual employment security. The analysis is carried out … at the micro-level, combining monthly spell data from household panel data and industry-level outsourcing measures. By … international outsourcing significantly lowers individual employment security. Interestingly, the effect does, however, not differ …
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This paper shows the strategic aspects of international outsourcing in an oligopolistic market, if outsourcing is … attractive because of fixed cost savings. We show that outsourcing decisions are strategic substitutes. Furthermore, we … integrated production and thus leads to more outsourcing. Additionally, we analyse how domestic costs and taxation affect the …
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Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...
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In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to thoseplaces in the world where production is relatively cheapest and most efficient. Itimplies that transaction costs,...
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This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …
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One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment …
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