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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
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Outsourcing and employment : a decomposition approach
Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - 2008
In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …
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Outward FDI and home country employment in USA manufacturing industries
Mullen, John K.; Williams, Martin - In: International journal of trade and global markets 6 (2013) 3, pp. 262-274
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Productivity performance and the international outsourcing of services by Canadian industry
Wernerheim, C. Michael - In: The International trade journal 26 (2012) 5, pp. 413-435
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Disturbances to the supply chains of high-value manufacturing firms : comparison of the perceptions of product managers and supply chain managers
Huq, Fahian Anisul; Pawar, Kulwant; Subramanian, Nachiappan - In: International journal of production research 59 (2021) 13, pp. 3916-3934
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Understanding the decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Houseman, Susan N. - 2018 - Revised June 2018
U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many economists and other analysts - pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output growth has largely kept pace with private sector real...
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Global sourcing and technical efficiency : a firm-level study on the ICT industry in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Stone, Trudy-Ann - In: Journal of business economics and management 18 (2017) 5, pp. 877-896
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Does offshoring raise female employment in a developing country? : evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants
Im, Hye-jun; Saito, Hisamitsu - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 47 (2024) 6, pp. 2608-2630
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Determinants of relocation mode choice : effect of resource endowment, competitive intensity and activity character
Dzikowska, Marlena; Malik, Radosław - In: European journal of international management : EJIM 19 (2023) 2, pp. 217-242
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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