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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country

Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Kinkel, Steffen; … - 2014

We investigate the effects of production offshoring on the innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the home … offshoring firms on average employ a higher share of R&D and design personnel, introduce new products more frequently to the … market, and invest more frequently in advanced process technologies compared to non-offshoring firms. Concerns that …

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FDI and onshore employment dynamics

Koerner, Konstantin; Moritz, Michael; Schäffler, Johannes - 2021

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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Foreign investment in Buryatia

Sysoeva, N. M. - In: Problems of economic transition 62 (2020) 7/9, pp. 485-490

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Patterns of employment, skills, and tasks within MNEs associated with offshoring

Eliasson, Kent; Hansson, Pär; Lindvert, Markus - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 45 (2022) 4, pp. 944-970

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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...