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U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …We provide new facts about the role of multinationals in the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment between 1993 … lower employment growth than a narrow control group and accounted for 41% of the aggregate manufacturing employment decline …
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-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …
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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …
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The steam engine is widely regarded as the icon of the Industrial Revolution and a prime example of a 'General Purpose Technology,' and yet its contribution to growth is far from transparent. This paper examines the role that a particular innovative design in steam power, the Corliss engine,...
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combine data on employment and earnings in two-digit manufacturing industries for U.S. border cities with data on employment …
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Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of … multinational firms' domestic and foreign affiliate employment decisions. In this paper, we resolve this identification problem …, demonstrating the simultaneity problem and showing how to resolve it using BTTs as an instrument for offshore employment. We confirm …
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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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distribution of incomes and employment, to consider explicit measures of well-being, which have been shown to depend on far more …
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How does growing international financial diversification affect firm-level and aggregate labor shares? We study this question using a novel framework of firm labor choice in the face of aggregate risk. The theory implies a cross-section of labor risk premia and labor shares that appear as...
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