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The decision to invest in a low-wage country : evidence from Italian textiles and clothing multinationals

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio - 2000

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Outsourcing and employment : a decomposition approach

Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - 2008

(products) of the economy and thus also includes employment effects of service offshoring. Third, we also calculate the …

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

Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2013

offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …

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Did Chinese outward activity attenuate or aggravate the Great Recession in developing countries?

Gawellek, Bastian; Lyu, Jingjing; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2016

Using data on Chinese large-scale overseas investment and project contracts by sector, we analyze whether Chinese outward activity (COA) before the crisis worsened or alleviated the contractionary phases in developing countries. We find that, on average, COA did not increase vulnerability to the...

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Productivity gains from offshoring : an empirical analysis for the Netherlands

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

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Does outward foreign direct investment affect domestic real wages? : an investigation using French micro-data

Gazaniol, Alexandre; Laffineur, Catherine - 2015

This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...

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Trade between China and the Netherlands : a case study of globalization

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Hayat, Raphie - 2008 - Version 12 February 2008

-house offshoring to China is a major determinant of Dutch import growth from China. Dutch firms tend to offshore production in …

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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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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011

Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014

While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...

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The new paradigm of international production : empirical evidence of Spanish offshoring activities

Matías Batalla, David de - 2016

mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …

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