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Supply Chain Resilience : Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring?
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Lhuillier, Hugo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Supply chain disruptions, which have become commonplace, are often associated with globalization and trade. Little is …
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Telemigration and Development : On the Offshorability of Teleworkable Jobs
Baldwin, Richard E.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
remote jobs will go overseas? We offer a rough quantification based on two observations: 1) offshore work is trade in … services, and 2) the number of telemigrants is the volume of this trade divided by the average wage. Combining these with … gravity-model estimates, we can roughly predict the number of new telemigrants that would arise from lower barriers to trade …
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The International Price of Remote Work
Brinatti, Agostina; Cavallo, Alberto; Cravino, Javier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...
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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan
Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute to this debate by exploiting a policy shock that differentially affected the ability of Taiwanese firms to offshore some products to China. We find causal evidence that...
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Misfits in the Car Industry : Offshore Assembly Decisions at the Variety Level
Head, Keith - 2019
This paper estimates the role of country-variety comparative advantage in the decision to offshore assembly of more than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half...
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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019
-2011, using a novel microdata panel with firm-level ownership and trade information. Multinational-owned establishments displayed …
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How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program
Glennon, Britta - 2020
Skilled immigration restrictions may have secondary consequences that have been largely overlooked in the immigration debate: multinational firms faced with visa constraints have an offshoring option, namely, hiring the labor they need at their foreign affiliates. If multinationals use this...
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Heterogeneous Globalization : Offshoring and Reorganization
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2020
responses suggest an additional, firm-level benefit of trade liberalization: the opportunity to offshore production of low …
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Offshoring and Inflation
Comin, Diego A. - 2020
Did trade integration suppress inflation in the United States? We say no, in contradiction to the conventional wisdom …. Our answer leverages two basic facts about the rise of trade: offshoring accounts for a large share of it, and it was a … long-lasting, phased-in shock. Incorporating these features into a New Keynesian model, we show trade integration was …
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...
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