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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

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Can maquila booms reduce poverty? : evidence from Honduras

De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2008

"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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The International Price of Remote Work

Brinatti, Agostina; Cavallo, Alberto; Cravino, Javier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

not accounted for by differences in workers' characteristics, occupations, nor for differences in the employers' locations …

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute … products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … evidence of a second-order positive effect of offshoring on the levels of innovation--particularly product innovation--in other …

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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing

Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019

U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …

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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States

Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …

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International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms

Baldwin, Richard - 2011

possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects …

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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Falck, Oliver - 2010

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

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When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?

Gray, Wayne B. - 2002

This paper takes a new approach to testing the impact of state environmental regulatory stringency on firms' location decisions, focusing on firms' allocation of production across states. We use Census data for the paper industry to measure the share of each firm's production in each state...

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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1995

In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...

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