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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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multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics …
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relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This … exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both …
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Do New York and Nashville face the same pressures from increased trade? This paper considers the role of international trade in shaping the product mix and relative wages for regions within the US. Using the predictions from a Heckscher-Ohlin trade model, we ask whether all the regions in the US...
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U.S. exports grew at a rate of 8.2% per year from 1987-1994, far faster than the economy as a whole or even the manufacturing sector. This paper examines the source of this export boom and argues that the boom itself has been less remarkable for the rate of growth of exports than for the...
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The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track employment by county and industry from 1946 … to the present. Two features of the data limit their usefulness to researchers in practice: (1) employment for the …-up constraints implicit in the hierarchical arrangement of the data to impute missing employment. Second, we provide concordances to …
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We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US manufacturing employment has evolved across …-based explanations of the overall decline of employment over this period, while also highlighting the difficulties of estimating an …
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The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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