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Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; … - 2008

The paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that …

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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2011

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2013

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...

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Outsourcing and employment : a decomposition approach

Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - 2008

In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …

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Understanding the decline of U.S. manufacturing employment

Houseman, Susan N. - 2018 - Revised June 2018

U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many economists and other analysts - pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output growth has largely kept pace with private sector real...

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Interlocking margins : a framework on the interaction of offshoring and outsourcing decisions

Jiang, Edwin - 2021

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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020

improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …

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Offshoring sector in Poland

Katarzyna, Budzyńska - 2014

becoming the attractive locations for the BPO/SSC enterprises. The article reviews the definition of outsourcing and offshoring …Companies across industries gain the competitive advantage by outsourcing and offshoring. Developing countries are … literature on outsourcing and offshoring. The article presents a preliminary analysis of offshoring sector in Poland. The …

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Domestic employment effects of offshoring: Empirical evidence from Finland

Deschryvere, Matthias; Kotiranta, Annu - 2008

of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … offshoring channel. Offshore outsourcing of R&D has a positive effect on the anticipated domestic employment, whereas in …-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing of production also …

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