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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg. C. - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

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 … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

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Brain Drain with FDI Gain? Factor Mobility between Eastern and Western Europe

Simone, Gianfranco De; Manchin, Miriam - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (network effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible \"diaspora...

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Does ICT Investment Spur or Hamper Offshoring? Empirical Evidence from Microdata

Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano; Sembenelli, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

account the endogeneity of ICT investment in the offshoring decision equation we find a negative and significant effect of ICT … offshoring of manufacturing activities. …

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Foreign vs. domestic outsourcing: Does VAT taxation of intermediate commodities under destination and origin principles matter?

Bognetti, Giuseppe; SANTONI, MICHELE - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

This paper considers the effects of destination vs. origin principles of intermediate commodity taxation on the organisational structure of firms in the presence of imperfectly competitive product and labour markets. The paper considers a unionised monopoly firm producing a final good by using...

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The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China

Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …

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The Determinants of Intra-Firm Trade

Corcos, Gregory; Irac, Delphine M.; Mion, Giordano; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of the intra-firm vs arms’length sourcing mode of imported inputs. We build a unique French dataset of 1,141,393 import transactions at the firm, country and product levels in the year 1999 that allow us to distinguish the different sourcing modes. We study...

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