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Topics in empirical international economics : a festschrift in honor of Robert E. Lipsey

Blomström, Magnus (ed.); Lipsey, Robert E. (honouree); … - 2001

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Trade and Production Networks of U.S. MNCs and Exports by Their Asian Affiliates

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

Network connections within MNCs seem to improve export market shares for Asian affiliates of those MNCs. In particular, Asian affiliates of U.S. MNCs export more to markets where their parent firms' exports to affiliates are larger, and less to markets where their parent firms export more to...

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Measuring International Trade in Services

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006

A particularly serious problem of measurement is the growing transfer of intangible US corporate assets to foreign affiliates of US firms, some of which use virtually no foreign factors of production. These transfers, mainly for tax saving purposes, give rise to phantom flows of services from...

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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake

Karabay, Bilgehan - 2009

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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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem

Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized equilibrium model of global value chains, we find two contrasting results. First, each country chooses stricter labor standards with globalization than it would under autarky, because...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights : No Race-to-the-Bottom?

Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...

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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...

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The Effect of Multinational Firms' Operations on Their Domestic Employment

Kravis, Irving B. - 1988

Given the level of its production in the U.S., a firm that produces more abroad tends to have fewer employees in the U.S. and to pay slightly higher salaries and wages to them. The most likely explanation seems to be that the larger a firm's foreign production, the greater its ability to...

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Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA

McLaren, John - 2010

Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by industry and by geography, measuring each industry's vulnerability to Mexican imports, and each locality's dependance on vulnerable industries. We find evidence of both effects,...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...

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