This paper shows the strategic aspects of international outsourcing in a duopolistic market. Due to different costs of … integrated production and outsourcing, the choice of a firm influences the strategy of the competitor via the output price … the three market constellations, both firms produce integrated, both use outsourcing and the firms operate with different …

This paper shows the strategic aspects of international outsourcing in an oligopolistic market, if outsourcing is … attractive because of fixed cost savings. We show that outsourcing decisions are strategic substitutes. Furthermore, we … integrated production and thus leads to more outsourcing. Additionally, we analyse how domestic costs and taxation affect the …

life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is … determinants of training. Rather than analyzing single determinants or groups of variables, we decompose the variation into a … show that both firm-, job- and worker-level heterogeneity explains training participation and that firm heterogeneity is …

regional training supply and employees ́training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …

-agent hires the sub-agent (outsourcing). We show that insourcing is always optimal when the principal can perfectly process the … prime-agent's report. When the principal's information process is limited, however, outsourcing can be the prevailing mode … no possibility of collusion arises with outsourcing. …