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In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which correspond to an increase in outsourcing by...
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In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the 1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production activities. In a theoretical model, we show that any...
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Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms who penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning by doing or through establishing buyer- supplier linkages. We pursue the idea that spillovers associated with one firm's export activity...
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We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging markets became more integrated into the international...
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that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of China's growth on developing countries that specialize in manufacturing. Over … 2000-2005, manufacturing accounted for 32% of China's GDP and 89% of its merchandise exports, making it more specialized in … the countries most exposed to the adverse consequences of China's export growth. Our results suggest that had China …
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In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We … observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes …. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China tend to split factory ownership and input control with managers in China …
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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 … China exported to the rest of the world. Our results suggests that gains to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong …
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In this paper, we examine Hong Kong's role in intermediating trade between China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong … distributes a large fraction of China's exports. Net of customs, insurance, and freight charges, re-exports of Chinese goods are … higher for differentiated products, products with higher variance in export prices, products sent to China for further …
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The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …
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