A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers / Fariha Kamal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamal, Fariha.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25193.

NBER working paper series no. w25193

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

This paper evaluates the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent data collection efforts to classify business entities that engage in an extreme form of production fragmentation called "factoryless" goods production. "Factoryless" goods-producing entities outsource physical transformation activities while retaining ownership of the intellectual property and control of sales to customers. Responses to a special inquiry on the incidence of purchases of contract manufacturing services in combination with data on production inputs and outputs, intellectual property, and international trade is used to identify and document characteristics of "factoryless" firms in the U.S. economy.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2018.