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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 …

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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...

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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We draw attention to the role of economic geography in explaining important cross-sectional facts which are difficult to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on...

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Theories of Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Redding, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, which emphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources across firms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship to traditional...

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Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and sectors. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that...

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Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export

Bernard, Andrew B.; Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed...

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Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relativeendowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates thatfirm reactions to trade liberalization generate endogenous Ricardian productivity responses at...

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