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Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the US
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation …
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Concertina Reforms with International Capital Mobility
Kreickemeier, Udo; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We show that the standard concertina result for tariff reforms -- i.e. lowering the highest tariff increases welfare -- no longer holds in general if we allow for international capital mobility. The result can break down if the good whose tariff is lowered is not capital intensive. If the...
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Pensions and Savings in a Monetary Union: an Analysis of Capital Flows
Jousten, Alain; Legros, Florence - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We analyse the economic impact of a simultaneous aging shock in two countries. The countries are identical in all respects except the financing scheme of their public pension system. While one relies on capitalization, the other one relies on a pay-as-you-go scheme. We show that the two...
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Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002
Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …
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