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This new, annual publication of wiiw replaces the former wiiw-WIFO Database on FDI. It has become more detailed, containing some 2500 times series, and is more user-friendly than the former one. The wiiw Database on FDI is available in print and PDF as well as on CD-ROM. The latter version...
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We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and...
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down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technologyrelated-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
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down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
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practices in information technology outsourcing relationships. Previous research has highlighted the need for absorptive … relationship management teams of both the supplier and client in outsourcing dyads, the human resource practices of the … that shows the necessity of developing the appropriate absorptive capacity to achieve innovation in outsourcing …
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We study the make-or-buy decision of oligopolistic firms in an industry in which final good production requires specialised inputs. Firms’ mode of operation decision depends on both the incentive to economize on costs and on strategic considerations. We explore the strategic incentives to...
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We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research … tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing …, outsourcing reduces the procurement costs of inducing a given level of effort if the contest organizer can collect entry fees …
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Sub-contracting the implementation of employment policies to private operators has recently undergone rapid growth. What is less known is that these dynamics have been at the heart of a step-level change in policy-making in this sector. The logic of ?activation? that was originally behind the...
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substitution of direct brain drain for outsourcing widened opportunities for the preservation and accumulation of national human …
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