This paper investigates the strength of the impact of vertical disintegration and outsourcing on the organization of …

specialization and the vertical disintegration of firms should be greater in areas where an industry concentrates. Our measure of … firm specialization and vertical disintegration employs a Herfindhal index constructed with occupational shares for all … workers within the firm. Controlling for firm size and sector of activity, we find that vertical disintegration is around …

The article analyses the impact of vertical disintegration on German labour relations. Previous research argued that … gradually transformed from market-constituting institutions to market-dependent variables. Vertical disintegration plays an …

ingredients of the reforms are full or partial privatization, vertical disintegration, liberalization. In this paper we focus on …. We find evidence that vertical disintegration in the energy sector and privatization increase the household probability … of experiencing utilities deprivation. Moreover, vertical disintegration also increases the household persistence in the …