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between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …
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We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …
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Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows … related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a … in parts and components. Our results bring evidence that bilateral trade related to offshoring activities across Europe …
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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Typically, this search … incomplete specialisation with complete specialisation as a natural limiting case. Re-sults support evidence for offshoring … the latest waves of offshoring activities from “old” to “new” EU members may have been more likely to hurt (low …
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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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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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Under plausible assumptions about preferences and technology, the model in this paper suggests that the entire volume of world trade matters for wage inequality. Therefore, trade integration, even among identical countries, is likely to increase the skill premium. Further, we argue that...
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