Foreign Outsourcing and Firm-level Characteristics: Evidence From Japanese Manufacturers
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.
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http://hi-stat.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/research/discussion/2004/pdf/D04-64.pdf