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This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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shares of high-skill as well as low-skill workers in the total workforce. The effects of off-shoring on wages and job … composition are also studied. Off-shoring of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not middle-skill tasks, is shown to contribute … technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …
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This chapter reviews the experience of computable general equilibrium (CGE) models from the perspective of how they have, or have not, influenced public policy in developing countries. The paper describes different classes of empirical models from small, stylized to large, multisectoral applied...
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Although global value chains (GVCs) are often considered a defining feature of the current wave of globalisation, little is known about: i) what drives GVC participation; ii) what the benefits associated to growing participation are; or iii) how developing countries engage and benefit from GVCs....
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich … individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we … identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task …
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This paper empirically assesses the responsiveness of US offshoring to intellectual property rights (IPR) reforms in 16 … countries. We construct a measure of US offshoring at the industry level based on trade in intermediate goods, covering 23 … industries for the period 1973–2006. For each industry, we differentiate between broad offshoring and intra-industry offshoring …
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When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I–O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
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Existing models of offshoring are not equipped to explain how global production sharing affects the volatility of … economic activity. This paper develops a trade model that can account for why offshoring industries in low wage countries such … States. We argue that a key to explaining this outcome is that the extensive margin of offshoring responds endogenously to …
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