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In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …
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offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …
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In this paper a stylized CGE model is constructed to study the impact of liberalization of barriers for foreign providers of intermediate producer services under imperfect competition on the welfare, the downstream industry output, the prices of the factors of production and the pattern of...
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This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...
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The causality from outsourcing, defined as the procurement of inputs from outside the boundaries of the firm, to … reallocation of resources towards higher value-added activities. The international outsourcing case adds another dimension in the … outsourcing is found to lead to productivity gains, but upon closer inspection it seems that firms? international orientation and …
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Needless to say, it is necessary to study the relative scales of the trade creation effect and the trade diversion effect to evaluate success of ASEAN trade integration and to determine whether or not the intra-bloc trade share is appropriate as an indicator of the progress of reducing...
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Recent decades have witnessed an increasing integration of developing countries into global value chains (GVCs). This growing participation in global production sharing has raised hopes for economic upgrading within such value chains. However, globalization has intensified international...
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We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, we test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows...
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This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...
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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …
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