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'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose Enrique; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

integration to changes in other relevant plant characteristics. We show that increases in outsourcing of services are positively …

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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...

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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...

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Outsourcing and Technological Change

Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of … outsourcing. No prior study has been able to provide such causal evidence. Our results are robust to the inclusion of detailed …

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The Hold-Down Problem and the Boundaries of the Firm: Lessons from a Hidden Action Model with Endogenous Outside Option

Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...

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Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of … outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of … activities. We distinguish outsourcing of materials from outsourcing of services inputs. We find that plants that are …

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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?

Suedekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …

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Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market...

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Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment

Böheim, René; Muehlberger, Ulrike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that these dependent self-employed lose their rights under labour law, receive less favourable benefits...

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