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Sous‐traitance, productivité, et composition des intrants au niveau de l'établissement.
Author(s) -
Paul Catherine J. Morrison,
Yasar Mahmut
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2009.01514.x
Subject(s) - outsourcing , productivity , business , industrial organization , simultaneity , production (economics) , clothing , function (biology) , economics , marketing , microeconomics , biology , history , archaeology , evolutionary biology , physics , classical mechanics , macroeconomics
We evaluate the productivity and input composition effects of outsourcing (or subcontracting) for Turkish textile and apparel manufacturing plants. We analyze differences in performance indicators for plants that subcontract inputs or outputs, and find that plants that outsource internationally perform better than those that outsource domestically. We evaluate labour productivity gaps and find that more productive plants both initiate outsourcing and subsequently increase their productivity. We then estimate a flexible production function, controlling for simultaneity and selection bias, and find that higher productivity from input subcontracting involves greater skilled labour intensity but the reverse is true for output subcontracting.