Foreign outsourcing and firm-level characteristics: evidence from Japanese manufacturers [PDF]
Based on micro data of 118,300 firms without firm-size thresholds covering all manufacturing industries in Japan, this paper investigates the foreign outsourcing, distinguished explicitly from domestic outsourcing, at the firm level.
Eiichi Tomiura
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Advancing Climate Change Research and Hydrocarbon Leak Detection : by Combining Dissolved Carbon Dioxide and Methane Measurements with ADCP Data [PDF]
, 2013 With the emergence of largescale, comprehensive environmental monitoring projects, there is an increased need to combine state-of-the art technologies to address complicated problems such as ocean acidifi cation and hydrocarbon leak ...
Devine, Paul, Fietzek, Peer
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Growing Pennsylvania's High-Tech Economy: Choosing Effective Investments [PDF]
, 2010 Compares Pennsylvania's high-tech economic development incentives, programs, and taxes with those of six competitor states. Includes case studies, program summaries, and analyses using a proprietary model and database.
Alan Peters +8 more
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(Dis)Assembling Rights of Women Workers Along the Global Assembly Line: Human Rights and the Garment Industry Symposium: Political Lawyering: Conversations on Progressive Social Change [PDF]
, 1996 Some observers would like to explain away sweatshops as immigrants exploiting other immigrants, as cultural, or as the importation of a form of exploitation that normally does not happen here but occurs elsewhere, in the Third World.
Ho, Laura +2 more
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From the old path of shipbuilding onto the new path of offshore wind energy? The case of northern Germany [PDF]
Wind energy-related employment has been surging recently in Germany: it rose from 9,200 in 1997 to 90,000 in 2007 and is estimated to be 112,000 in 2020. The industry particularly emerged in coastal, northern Germany.
Claudia Klaerding +4 more
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Managing Well Integrity using Reliability Based Models [PDF]
, 2014 Imperial Users ...
Farwana, Amany, Farwana, Amany
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It Should Be a Breeze: Harnessing the Potential of Open Trade and Investment Flows in the Wind Energy Industry [PDF]
This working paper maps out the structure and value chains of the wind industry, analyzes the wind industry's increasing global integration via cross-border trade and investment flows, and offers recommendations to policymakers for the design of ...
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard +2 more
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Competition and the Location of Overseas Assembly [PDF]
How does international competition affect overseas outsourcing? While it is commonly believed that international competition enables firms to desert high cost countries in favor of low wage locations, the frequency of such responses may be reduced if the
Deborah Swenson
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Multidimensional Drivers of Fish Community Assembly Across Seasonal and Hydrographic Gradients in the Yangtze River Estuary and Adjacent East China Sea: Insights from eDNA Analyses. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Tang Y +6 more
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Proposed State Offshore Oil & Gas Legislation and Resolutions: 2017-18 [PDF]
, 2019 Betts, Megan +1 more
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