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International subcontracting involving LDCs

König, W. - In: Intereconomics 10 (1975) 2, pp. 53-56

An increasing number of LDCs for which international subcontracting has been an accepted practice can be seen to be …

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The outsourcing wage penalty along the wage distribution by gender

Fana, Marta; Giangregorio, Luca; Villani, Davide - 2022

This paper studies if and to what extent the outsourced status entails a wage penalty for workers during the period 2005-2019 in France and how these differences vary between genders. Our findings show that workers in outsourced jobs suffer a wage penalty which is higher for female workers...

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Contractor safety prequalification

Philips, Peter; Waitzman, Norman - 2013

This safety-procurement tradeoff can be addressed by setting safety standards and then exempting selected activities … case, the relative value of contractor safety capabilities against contractor price and quality offerings. Construction … work is particularly difficult to safety prequalify because the ramp-up time to bidding is short; construction uses several …

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Is transport subcontracting a barrier to modal shift? Empirical evidence from Germany in the context of horizontal transshipment technologies

Truschkin, Eugen; Elbert, Ralf; Günter, Armin - In: Business Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 77-103

Guided by the theory of organizational path dependence, this paper explores whether transport subcontracting might be a … willingness to shift transport modes is significantly higher if forwarders use their own semi-trailers rather than subcontracting …

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Domestic outsourcing in the United States: A research agenda to assess trends and effects on job quality

Bernhardt, Annette; Batt, Rosemary L.; Houseman, Susan N.; … - 2016

The goal of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research agenda to analyze trends in domestic outsourcing in the United States - firms' use of contractors and independent contractors - and its effects on job quality and inequality. In the process, we review definitions of outsourcing, the...

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Efficient organization of production: Nested versus horizontal outsourcing

Shy, Oz; Stenbacka, Rune - 2009

The authors characterize equilibrium and efficient modes of production by comparing nested (vertical) outsourcing with horizontal outsourcing. Nested outsourcing is found to be inefficient unless the cost of monitoring outsourced production lines increases sharply with the number of...

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Subcontracting and the size and composition of the informal sector: Evidence from Indian manufacturing

Moreno, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul Azeez - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector … fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal enterprises gained importance, while the informal sector continued to …' view on formal-informal production linkages, we test whether subcontracting is related to the size of more modern versus …

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De autonijverheid in België

Coppens, François; Van Gastel, George - 2003

subcontracting companies. The latter conclusion fuelled/fuels the trend to anchor as it were the industrial core activities through …

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La consommation privée en Belgique

Eugène, Bruno; Jeanfils, Philippe; Robert, Benoît - 2003

This paper analyses the path of private consumption and its main macroeconomic determinants. These are related to the life-cycle approach which helps explaining consumption smoothing. In that respect, it is important to go beyond the simple correlation between current disposable income and...

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Economic importance of the Flemish maritime ports: Report 2002

Lagneaux, Frédéric - 2004

This paper provides an extensive overview of the economic importance and development of the Flemish maritime ports, over the period 1995 - 2002. Focusing on the three major variables of value added, employment and investment, it also provides some information about the financial situation of a...

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