Efficiency and productivity comparisons between outsourcers and non-outsourcers: Evidence from a metafrontier production function with endogenous switching
學年 103
學期 1
出版（發表）日期 2014-08-01
作品名稱 Efficiency and productivity comparisons between outsourcers and non-outsourcers: Evidence from a metafrontier production function with endogenous switching
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 Lin, Yi-Chen; Chiang, Li-Chih
單位 淡江大學經濟學系
出版者 Abingdon: Routledge
著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development: An International and Comparative Review 23(6), p.837-861
摘要 This paper aims to compare productivity and technical efficiency (TE) between outsourcers and non-outsourcers with an empirical methodology that accounts for both heterogeneous production technologies and non-random sample separation. Using plant-level data on six two-digit manufacturing industries in Taiwan over the period 2002–2005, the endogenous switching regression and the stochastic metafrontier methodology enable us to generate TE scores that are comparable across production units that operate under different technologies without the standard assumption in the literature that the outsourcing status is out of the control of the plant and that outsourcers and non-outsourcers use the same technology. We find that outsourcers are, on average, more technically efficient and technologically advanced than non-outsourcers. Productivity differences account for the lion's share of the outsourcer–non-outsourcer output gap.
關鍵字 outsourcing;productivity;technical efficiency;Oaxaca–Ransom decomposition;metafrontier;technology gap ratios
語言 en_US
ISSN 1469-9559
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 SSCI
產學合作
通訊作者 林亦珍
審稿制度 是
國別 GBR
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