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Export-Magnification Effect of Offshoring

Kleinert, Jörn; Zorell, Nico - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2010

between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Why Firms Fragment Production Across Locations

Fort, Teresa C. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

contract for manufacturing services, I show that domestic fragmentation: i) is far more prevalent than offshoring; ii) changes …

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Globalization and Price Dispersion: Evidence from U.S. Trade Flows

Tang, John - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2010

Historically, the integration of international markets has corresponded with decreasing prices for traded goods due to higher competition among suppliers, scale economies, and consumption demand. In recent years, product differentiation and multinational firm pricing behavior across markets and...

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The Italian firms between crisis and the new globalization

Accetturo, Antonio; Giunta, Anna; Rossi, Salvatore - Banca d'Italia - 2011

This paper analyzes the characteristics of Italian firms involved in global value chains (ï¿½intermediateï¿½ firms) by using the Bank of Italy survey on industrial companies. Intermediate firms show, on average, worse features than ï¿½finalï¿½ firms: smaller size, lower share of...

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Exploiting the Potential for Services Offshoring: Evidence from German Firms

Eppinger, Peter S. - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

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Offshoring Potential and Employment Dynamics

Boockmann, bernhard - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014

This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....

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