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Offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and productivity: Evidence for a number of European countries

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2012

offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity … not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign …

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Growing Trade in Intermediate Goods: Outsourcing, Global Sourcing or Increasing Importance of MNE Networks?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … outsourcing and global sourcing is found to be much weaker. …

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Comparative advantage and skill-specific unemployment

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...

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Comparative advantage in (non-)routine production

Archanskaia, Liza; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Willmann, … - 2020

We illustrate a new source of comparative advantage that is generated by countries' different ability to adjust to technological change. Our model introduces substitution of workers in codifiable (routine) tasks with more efficient machines, a process extensively documented in the labor...

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The Solow model in the empirics of growth and trade

Gundlach, Erich - 2006

Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady state output per person are due to international differences in technology for a constant capital output ratio. However, most of the cross-country growth literature that refers...

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Overseas links as export conduits

Hanley, Aoife - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between exports and overseas links using data from the UK Community Innovation Survey. Overseas vertical and horizontal links are associated with an average increase in export intensity of 74 and 156 percent for vertical and horizontal overseas links...

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Komparative Wettbewerbsposition der Ukraine in den Produktions- und Handelsbeziehungen im Weltwirtschaftssystem und mit dem sich erweiternden Europa

Konchyn, Vadym - 2004

In diesem Beitrag wird die Position der Ukraine in der internationalen Arbeitsteilung analysiert. Er stützt sich auf sektoral disaggregierte Daten zu Handel, Faktorausstattung und Lohnkosten für die Industrie der Ukraine sowie der Mitgliedsländer der erweiterten Europäischen Union. Die...

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The new institutional economics of antitrust and regulation

Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 1999

Hybrid governance structures between markets and hierarchies in many industries, e.g., in energy and telecommunications, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New Institutional Economics (NIE) for analyzing the...

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Siemens: a multinational's strategy to investment in the Central-East European transformation countries

Sander, Birgit - 1995

The Central East European economies are competing for international investment capital, especially for FDI in order to support transformation. The paper explores how the Siemens AG, one of the world's largest MNCs, allocates investments towards and within Central East Europe and how they fit...

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A simple model of outsourcing with Cournot competition

Hübler, Michael - 2007

The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production …. Final production is located in western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a western (outsourcing …) or eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). Interregional production (factor) allocation depending on factor …

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