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Offshoring and Corporate Headquarters: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

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  • TOMIURA Eiichi
  • ITO Banri
  • WAKASUGI Ryuhei

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Offshoring requires firms to have strong corporate headquarters for monitoring and contracting with suppliers. This paper exploits the unique Japanese firm-level data, which categorizes the type of offshore supplier as: own FDI subsidiaries, subsidiaries owned by other Japanese firms, and foreign suppliers. This paper finds that firms outsourcing to foreign or Japanese suppliers tend to allocate significantly more workers to corporate headquarters, compared with firms involved in intra-firm offshoring. The ownership rather than nationality of suppliers is the significant determinant for the size of corporate headquarters in offshoring firms. This finding is robust even after firm-specific effects are controlled for.

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  • TOMIURA Eiichi & ITO Banri & WAKASUGI Ryuhei, 2010. "Offshoring and Corporate Headquarters: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data," Discussion papers 10032, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:dpaper:10032
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