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"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …
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This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm …
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Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being 'snakes' and 'spiders'. Snakes are...
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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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We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population …
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integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …
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This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … statistical association between the share of both "non-clerical" and clerical occupations potentially affected by offshoring and …
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tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We identify a …
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correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …
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