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engage in offshoring. Reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. China remains the most attractive site for …
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engage in offshoring; reshoring does occur but seldom for corrective reasons. (3) North America may be at the cusp of a …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
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The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …
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pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
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This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …
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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...
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The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing the … increase the probability of offshoring, while those that introduce regulatory constraints in the labor market discourage it. We … also show that offshoring activities are more likely for firms that have developed networks in the country of destination. …
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