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The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing
Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009
offshoring and international trade. …
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550423
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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
We analyze the causal impact of competition on managerial quality (and hospital performance). To address the endogeneity of market structure we analyze the English public hospital sector where entry and exit are controlled by the central government. Because closing hospitals in areas where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542755
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The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports
Carballo, Jerónimo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We use highly disaggregated firm-level export data from Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Uruguay over the period 2005-2008 to provide a precise characterization of firms' export margins, across products, destination countries, and crucially customers. We show that a firm's number of buyers and the...
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