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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020

improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …

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Disentangling the wage impacts of offshoring on a developing country : theory and policy

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2016

The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are … by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories … in developing countries? Using a parsimonious two-country model of offshoring we find very nuanced results. These include …

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Temporary shocks and offshoring : the role of external economies and firm heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish (contributor); Ranjan, Priya (contributor) - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …

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The contractionary short-run effects of nominal devaluation in developing countries : some neglected nuances

Razmi, Arslan - 2006 - Revised version

This paper extends the model developed by Krugman and Taylor (1978) to take into account interesting features of the evolving structure of global trade. The growing presence of transnational production chains and differential pricing behaviour of exports destined for industrial and developing...

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Aid, growth, and jobs

Fields, Gary S. - 2013

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...

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A survey of the economics of Fair Trade

Dammert, Ana C.; Mohan, Sarah - 2014

Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved community development and social goods. Fair Trade is also viewed as a niche market for high value...

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Aid, conditionality, and war economies

Boyce, James K. - 2004

When natural resource revenues provide an important motive and/or means for armed conflict, the transition from war peace faces three challenges: (i) ensuring that the benefits and costs of natural resource exploitation are distributed so as to ease rather than exacerbate social tensions; (ii)...

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Price competition and the fallacy of composition in developing country exports of manufactures : estimates of short-run growth effects

Blecker, Robert A.; Razmi, Arslan - 2006 - Revised version

This paper studies whether intra-developing country price competition has significant effects on the short-run growth rates of developing countries that are specialized in manufactured exports. Regression estimates using the generalized method of moments (GMM) applied to annual panel data for 17...

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Determinants of international migration : empirical evidence for migration from developing countries to Germany

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998

By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature the paper first works out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies...

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The effects of development on migration : theoretical issues and new empirical evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

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