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The steam engine is widely regarded as the icon of the Industrial Revolution and a prime example of a 'General Purpose Technology,' and yet its contribution to growth is far from transparent. This paper examines the role that a particular innovative design in steam power, the Corliss engine,...
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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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U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
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-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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Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …
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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …
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When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
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important aspects of global supply chain relationships: supply chain integration and collaboration; outsourcing and offshoring … customer power on supply chain integration and performance / Xiande Zhao ... [et al.] -- 10. Offshoring process / Dmitrij … Slepniov, Brian Waehrens, Hiroshi Katayama -- 11. Impact of strategic outsourcing on operational control / Rob Dekkers -- 12. A …
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"This book is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics …General views of logistics, outsourcing, and logistics outsourcing / Leonidas Baziotopoulos -- A framework for the … management of logistics outsourcing life cycle / Dimitris Folinas -- Contracting for logistics services: a critical appraisal of …
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that credit unions choose: one is a partial form of outsourcing while the other is more complete. This allows us to …
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