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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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' employment from the Census Bureau's business register to examine wholesalers and retailers in U.S. exports and imports. Exporters … and importers with 100 percent employment in wholesale and retail differ from pure "producer and consumer" trading firms … along a number of dimensions: they are smaller in terms of employment, trade value and domestic sales, operate fewer U …
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Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview...
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import from related parties, dominate U.S. trade flows and employment at trading firms. We also find that firms that begin … trading between 1993 and 2000 experience especially rapid employment growth and are a major force in overall job creation …
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from 1977 to 1997. Both employment and output growth are slower for plants that face higher levels of low wage import …
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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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