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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - FIW - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...

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Foreign Trade and FDI in the Austrian Regions – A new methodology to estimate regional trade and an analysis of the crisis effects

Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012

Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data on regional trade in Austria is only available on a very...

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Foreign Trade and FDI in the Austrian Regions – A new methodology to estimate regional trade and an analysis of the crisis effects

Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012

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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks

Püschel, Julia - FIW - 2013

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers’ skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input-output tables over the period from 2006 to 2009, I am...

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Foreign Trade in the Austrian Regions

Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012

This policy brief introduces a method to estimate foreign trade of the nine Austrian NUTS-2 regions. The basic idea of the method is to disaggregate national foreign trade data to the regional level using national input-output, regional employment and other supplemental data. This allows for the...

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The Influence of Trade with the EU-15 on Wages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia between 1997 and 2005

Wacker, Konstantin - FIW - 2010

I use the STAN database of the OECD and different econometric methods to investigate the effects of exports towards the EU-15 on wages in the Visegrad countries (CEEC-4; Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). The results do not allow to draw any definite statements about this effect....

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Modell basierte Analyse von Wasserströmen im internationalen Handel von Agrarprodukten

Treitler, Roland; Berrer, Helmut - FIW - 2010

The amount of water embodied in Austrian imports of selected agricultural products is quantified. These imports are analysed by a dynamic model that is based on the water footprint concept. The model quantifies the water savings potential using a database including more than 200 countries and...

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Does Outward Foreign Direct Investment affect domestic real wages? An investigation using French micro-data

Gazaniol, Alexandre; Laffineur, Catherine - FIW - 2015

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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A Dynamic North-South Model of Demand-Induced Product Cycles

Foellmi, Reto; Hanslin, Sandra; Kohler, Andreas - FIW - 2015

. We ask how changes in Southern labor productivity, South's population size and inequality across regions affects the …

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Inequality Adjustment Criteria for the Human Development Index

Tarabusi, Enrico Casadio; Guarini, Giulio - FIW - 2010

Our goal is to analyse the inequality aspects of Human Development Index and to propose a new aggregation function that … can adjust it by considering inequality penalisation. We take into account inequality across dimensions and across … individuals and three laws of inequality penalisation: decreasing, constant and increasing. At the beginning, we describe the …

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