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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries [PDF]
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct
Holger Görg +2 more
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International Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare: A Re-Examination
East Asian Economic Review, 2019 This paper explores the ramifications of international outsourcing on unemployment, income distribution and welfare, which is an important but yet unresolved issue.
Jai-Young Choi, Eden S. H. Yu
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The Impact of Outsourcing on the Japanese and South Korean Labor Markets: International Outsourcing of Intermediate Inputs and Assembly in East Asia [PDF]
Applying a common empirical approach to comparable industry-level data on production, trade, and labor markets for Japan and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market focusing on ...
Ahn, Sanghoon, Fukao, Kyoji, Ito, Keiko
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A Business Framework for Product Take‐Back—A Structured Multiple‐Case Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The potential of take‐back systems remains largely unrealized as initiatives have proven difficult to implement in practice. The question is why we do not see more take‐back systems given the substantial environmental benefits. We try to understand the challenges and stumbling blocks in setting up take‐back from a business perspective.
Rasmus Jørgensen, Torben Pedersen
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Asian Management and Business ReviewThis paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the relatively comprehensive breadth of information on outsourcing-offshoring from existing and open-source research articles.
Arie Indra Gunawan +2 more
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Fragmentation, Productivity and Relative Wages in the UK: A General Equilibrium Approach [PDF]
Feenstra and Hanson (1999) propose a two-stop method to analyse the role of outsourcing and skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in the rise in wage inequality.
Hijzen, Alexander
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What Can K–12 Education Teach College Professors?
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Michael P. Marchetti
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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The Effects of Labour Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining and Flexible Outsourcing [PDF]
This paper studies in the presence of flexible outsourcing the effects of outsourcing costs, productivity of outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages and the impacts
Koskela, Erkki
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Implications of Technological Uncertainty on Firm Outsourcing Decisions [PDF]
, 2006 Outsourcing inherently considers what activity needs to reside within a given firm. The difficulty of exchanges between firms in the face of uncertainty affects where work on developing and producing new products is performed.
King, David R.
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