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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466786
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China's Exports and Employment
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2007
Dooley et al (2003, 2004a,b,c) argue that China seeks to raise urban employment by 10-12 million persons per year, with about 30% of that coming from export growth. In fact, total employment increased by 7.5-8 million per year over 1997-2005. We estimate that export growth over 1997-2002...
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US Exports and Employment
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017
We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United States, both of which have been expanding strongly during the past decades. We find that although Chinese imports reduce jobs, at both the industry level and the local commuting...
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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004
In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468496
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Market Share and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in World Automobile Trade
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1993
firm interactions. The model is estimated using a panel data set of automobile exports from France, Germany, Sweden, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474552
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Tariff Reductions, Entry, and Welfare : Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015
In a standard multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model the effect of tariffs on entry, especially in the presence of production linkages, can reverse the traditional positive optimal-tariff argument. We construct and employ a new, large, disaggregated tariff dataset and then apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456903
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The Value of Information in International Trade : Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2002
In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides welfare gains to foreign firms using these services....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469378
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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages : Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladoras
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995
correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473764
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Statistics to Measure Offshoring and its Impact
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017
We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455613
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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460742