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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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Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
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unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring …
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negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent …
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Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric...
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …
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Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms …, other such as a higher innovation, demand sensitivity or productivity explain why some firms choose to subcontract instead …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
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We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish … and profit share. We find that in the first case outsourcing will reduce (increase) workers' income, if the labor union …'s bargaining power is sufficiently high (low) and outsourcing will increase workers' income in the second case. For the amount of …
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