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Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Uribe, Maria José - 2012

Understanding the drivers of international production fragmentation is an important issue for Latin American and Caribbean countries because participation in global production networks can help mitigate instability due to dependence on natural resources and can provide opportunities for further...

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Insertion of Costa Rica in global value chains : a case study

Monge González, Ricardo; Zolezzi, Sandro - 2012

This study sheds light on how Costa Rica’s insertion in global value chains occurs by examining governance patterns, the type of activities involved, and the level of underlying innovation in the selected value chain. The paper describes in detail two case studies of electronic-related...

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Can Mexico set up in the aerospace and the software and IT global value chains as a high-value-added player?

Brown Grossman, Flor; Domínguez Villalobos, Lilia - 2012

This study is an effort to identify the process by which firms venture into GVCs and the obstacles faced by firms once they have been immersed in it. We have focused on two particular GVCs: the aerospace GVC and the software and IT services GVC. Through the case studies, we analyzed the nature...

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Downstream offshoring and firm-level employment : evidence for Belgian manufacturing firms

Merlevede, Bruno; Michel, Bernhard - 2013

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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

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Production offshoring and the skill composition of Italian manufacturing firms : a counterfactual analysis

Antonietto, Roberto (contributor); … - 2007

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Does offshoring contribute to reducing air emissions? : evidence from Belgian manufacturing

Michel, Bernhard - 2013

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Productivity gains and spillovers from offshoring

Michel, Bernhard - 2011

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …

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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

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