Search Results - subject:"OUTSOURCING"

Exporting and offshoring with monopsonistic competition

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Moser, Christoph; … - 2019

We develop a model of international trade with a monopsonistically competitive labour market in which firms employ skilled labour for headquarter tasks and unskilled workers to conduct a continuum of production tasks. Firms can enter foreign markets through exporting and through offshoring, and...

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The relationship between offshoring, growth and welfare

Huffman, Gregory W. - 2019

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Trade in tasks : revisiting the wage and employment effects of offshoring

Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2019

We revisit Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) famous result, that under certain conditions offshoring of low-skilled labor tasks raises the domestic wage for low-skilled workers. Our re-examination features a less benign environment where Rybczynski-type reallocation of factors to absorb...

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Optimization of single outsourcer-single subcontractor outsourcing relationship under reliability and maintenance constraints

Asadujjaman, Mohammed; Zaman, Kais; Mouss, Nadia Kinza - In: Journal of industrial engineering international 15 (2019) 3, pp. 395-409

In this paper, we focus on outsourcing activities optimization problem in single period setting. In some situations …, capacity planning or outsourcing is a one-time event and can be modeled as a single period problem. The aim of this research is …. The outsourcer’s manufacturing system is not able to satisfy the demand; in this case, outsourcing is allowed to recover …

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Technological changes, offshoring, and the labor share

Lian, Weicheng - 2019

Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changes within individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the labor share of income can be traced to the relocation of activities between countries. I develop a two-country...

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Evaluation der Offshore-ArbZV

Duus, Rainer; Fertig, Michael; Hägele, Helmut; … - 2019

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Service imports, workforce composition, and firm performance : evidence from Finnish microdata

Ariu, Andrea; Nilsson-Hakkala, Katariina; Jensen, J. … - 2019

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...

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Employment effects of offshore oil and gas regulations

Payson, Steven; Sloboda, Brian W. - 2019

The estimation of the employment effects of offshore safety and environmental regulation is often highly speculative and based on questionable assumptions. Nevertheless, it is still highly publicized and used as a basis for policy statements in support or, or in opposition to, proposed...

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Service imports, workforce composition, and firm performance : evidence from Finnish microdata

Ariu, Andrea; Nilsson-Hakkala, Katariina; Jensen, J. … - 2019

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, workforce composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002–2012). We use...

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Zusammenhang von Industrie 4.0 und Rückverlagerungen von Produktionsaktivitäten aus dem Ausland

Kinkel, Steffen - 2019

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