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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124479
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Fear of Outsourcing: Is It Justified?
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504627
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Offshoring high-skilled jobs: EU multinationals and domestic employment of inventors
Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
-skilled employment in headquarter countries. We estimate of the impact offshoring inventors has on firms' use of inventors at home using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084698
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Monetary Policy Shocks and Portfolio Choice
Fratzscher, Marcel; Saborowski, Christian; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The paper shows that monetary policy shocks exert a substantial effect on the size and composition of capital flows and the trade balance for the United States, with a 100 basis point easing raising net capital inflows and lowering the trade balance by 1% of GDP, and explaining about 20-25% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692318
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A global monetary tsunami? On the spillovers of US Quantitative Easing
Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary policy measures since 2007. First, we find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1), but not since 2010 (QE2), were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and raising equity markets...
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