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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …
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Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the … possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects …
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Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur. …
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marginal and average firm productivity are reversed in our model, yet there are significant gains from trade arising from … workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …
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We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...
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We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...
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We analyze the effects of offshoring of intermediate input production on labour demand in Sweden, distinguishing … that offshoring -- in particular to low-income countries -- tends to shift labour demand away from workers with an … intermediate level of education. Offshoring to high-income countries, which is the largest component of overall offshoring, does …
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How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign a¢ liates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...
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paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring …
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