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Patterns of International Fragmentation of Production and Implications for the Labor Markets

Helg, Rodolfo; Tajoli, Lucia - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2002

Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to another to combine manufacturing or services activities at home with those performed abroad. This configuration of the productive structure has been named “internationally...

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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains

Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...

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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

exogenous to firms’ export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

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Dual Track Reforms: With and Without Losers

Che, Jiahua; Facchini, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005

The dual track approach to market liberalization has been widely recognized as the key to the success of the Chinese economic reform. In this paper we study the effectiveness of this strategy in economic environments where the status quo government control is incomplete. We show that in a...

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Do Not Get Trapped into Crossing: Indian Firms and Foreign Markets

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Galeotti, Marzio; Tucci, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2002

’ export share and productivity gains. Productivity growth declines with the share of exports on total sales, up to a threshold …, productivity gains also arise for smaller export shares. One likely explanation of this finding is that being successful in the … export market for exporters of traditional products also requires investments in technological upgrading. These investments …

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Exporting under Trade Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence

Handley, Kyle - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2012

I provide novel evidence for the impact of trade policy uncertainty on exporters. In a dynamic, heterogeneous firms model, trade policy uncertainty will delay the entry of exporters into new markets and make them less responsive to applied tariff reductions. Policy instruments that reduce or...

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...

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The Collapse Speed of China's Exports in the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis

Jing, Ran - CESifo - 2011

This paper studies the performance of China’s exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at which China’s exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP growth rates of importing countries play an...

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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?

Ceglowski, Janet; Golub, Stephen - CESifo - 2011

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs...

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