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The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research agenda to analyze trends in domestic outsourcing in the … process, we review definitions of outsourcing, the available scant empirical research, and limitations of existing data … predictions about likely impacts on job quality. We then lay out in detail a major research initiative on domestic outsourcing …
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for performance and long-term profitability. While outsourcing reduces the operating costs of major airlines, it increases …
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The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research agenda to analyze trends in domestic outsourcing in the … process, we review definitions of outsourcing, the available scant empirical research, and limitations of existing data … predictions about likely impacts on job quality. We then lay out in detail a major research initiative on domestic outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128241
-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …. -- Intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; outsourcing tariffs …
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This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the production of manufactured goods. Using new data on...
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Purpose - The aim of this work is to study the reorientation that the export industrial sectors in Costa Rica have experienced during the last 20 years.Research design, data, methodology - The study employs the Cluster Analysis with the export data (20 years of cut-off period) from Costa Rica to...
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This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the production of manufactured goods. Using new data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079905
lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
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This paper investigates the underlying sources of the US entrepreneurial ecosystem's comparative advantage by assessing the benefits Israeli technology startups derive from migrating to the US. To address positive sorting into migration we adopt three complementary approaches, which include...
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In many countries, employment services are contracted out to private providers. However, there is little evidence on the contract design as well as on the effects of differential pricing on private provider performance. This paper contributes to the literature by presenting detailed information...
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