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emerged to explain this phenomenon, one focusing on international trade and labor market globalization as the driving force … continued effects of technology and globalization on the labor market. …
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This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
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This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific … the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more …
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We develop a Ricardian model of trade in which countries innovate ideas that diffuse across the globe. In this model, the forces of innovation and diffusion combine to shape trade substitution patterns. Innovation makes a country technologically distinct, reducing their substitutability with...
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …
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This paper analyzes the potential effect of global market competition on inflation dynamics. It does so through the lens of the Calvo model of staggered price-setting, which implies that inflation depends on expected future inflation and a measure of marginal costs. I modify the assumption of a...
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections and the 2000, 2008, and 2016 presidential elections, we detect an ideological realignment that is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and...
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China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in … during the post globalization period (2003-2019) increased by 11.5% of the corresponding pre-globalization period (1984 … contrast, following globalization, the average aggregate domestic profitability of US firms remained flat, and firms employed …
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …
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