A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers

Fariha Kamal

No 25193, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: F2 F23 L23 L6 M11 O32 O51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10
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Published as A Portrait of US Factoryless Goods Producers , Fariha Kamal. in Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of National Accounts , Ahmad, Moulton, Richardson, and van de Ven. 2023

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