TY - JOUR
T1 - Market thickness and outsourcing services
AU - Ono, Yukako
N1 - Funding Information:
I am most grateful for advice provided by J. Vernon Henderson and Andrew Foster. I also thank Thomas Hubbard, Harumi Ito and Daniel McMillen, and the Editor (Antonio Ciccone) and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. Support of the National Science Foundation (grant SBR9730142) for this research is gratefully acknowledged. All remaining errors are mine. The research in this paper was conducted while the author was a Census Bureau research associate at the Boston Research Data Center. Research results and conclusions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily indicate concurrence by the Census Bureau of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. This paper has been screened to insure that no confidential data are revealed.
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - This paper examines whether the outsourcing of business services is supported more in thicker local markets. In particular, I examine manufacturing plants' practices of outsourcing business services. Using plant-level data from the 1992 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM), I find evidence that supports the view that a plant's likelihood of outsourcing is greater in thicker local markets, while the extent of the effect varies across services.
AB - This paper examines whether the outsourcing of business services is supported more in thicker local markets. In particular, I examine manufacturing plants' practices of outsourcing business services. Using plant-level data from the 1992 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM), I find evidence that supports the view that a plant's likelihood of outsourcing is greater in thicker local markets, while the extent of the effect varies across services.
KW - Business service
KW - In-house production
KW - Outsourcing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2006.08.007
DO - 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2006.08.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33846551693
VL - 37
SP - 220
EP - 238
JO - Regional Science and Urban Economics
JF - Regional Science and Urban Economics
SN - 0166-0462
IS - 2
ER -