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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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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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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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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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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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), foreign and domestic employees appear to be substitutes. For these firms, lower wages in affiliate locations are associated … associated with higher US manufacturing employment. These offsetting effects may be combined to show that offshoring is …
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appear to condition outsourcing decisions. The data for 1991-2000 show that U.S. overseas assembly imports were characterized … educated countries passed-through a much larger portion of their cost changes. In addition, the price of outsourcing imports … differential price responses suggest that information issues play an important role in the mediation of outsourcing relationships …
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This paper explores potential realization of gains by hospitals that are managed on a day-to-day basis by external organizations under formal contracts. It draws from the incentives literature, which postulates that managers of firms where ownership is separated from control will employ an input...
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