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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations

Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L’Esprit des Lois, argued, “peace is...

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Oligopoly and Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing sector. When there is a minimum wage, an outsourcing tax might be … desirable and the usual profit-shifting objectives of an export subsidy are mitigated, perhaps completely, because it might lead … outsourcing. Further, if export subsidies are not possible due to WTO regulations, it is optimal to subsidize rather than to tax …

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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in response to market conditions) and through...

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Why More West than East German Firms Export

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

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Directional imbalance of freight rates : evidence from Japanese inter-prefectural data

Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

By analyzing a comprehensive dataset on transport transactions in Japan, we describe a directional imbalance in freight rates by transport mode and examine its potential sources, such as economies of density and directionally imbalanced transport flow. There are certain numbers of observed links...

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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …

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Fragmentation, Productivity and Relative Wages in the UK: A General Equilibrium Approach

Hijzen, Alexander - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

Feenstra and Hanson (1999) propose a two-stop method to analyse the role of outsourcing and skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in the rise in wage inequality. This paper applies their methodology to UK manufacturing using data for the 1990s and extends it in order to obtain additional...

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

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International Fragmentation and Relative Wages in the UK

Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996)...

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