Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10478002 Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 2005 17 Pages PDF
Abstract
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. Less than three percent of the firms are outsourcing their production across national borders. The fixed entry cost for foreign outsourcing is significant and related with the firm's human skills and foreign business experience. The firms tend to outsource more of their activities overseas when their productivity is higher or when their products are more labor-intensive. J. Japanese Int. Economies19 (2) (2005) 255-271.
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