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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
To illustrate how small the effects are, suppose that over the next nine years all of inshoring and offshore outsourcing grew at rates experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers...
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
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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A Sorted Tale of Globalization : White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring
Liu, Runjuan - 2011
We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two understudied aspects: it deals with service trade (most studies deal with manufacturing trade) and it examines the historical first of U.S. workers competing with educated but...
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U.S. Firms in Latin American Service Industries
Blomstrom, Magnus - 1987
The participation of U.S. service industry firms in Latin American markets for services consists mainly of the activities of U.S.-owned affiliates operating in Latin America and very little of direct exports of ser- vices from the U.S. The important policy issues thus involve barriers to the...
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A General Purpose Technology at Work : The Corliss Steam Engine in the late 19th Century US
Rosenberg, Nathan - 2001
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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Offshore Hedge Funds : Survival and Performance 1989-1995
Brown, Stephen J. - 1997
We examine the performance of the offshore hedge fund industry over the period 1989 through 1995 using a database that includes defunct as well as currently operating funds. The industry is characterized by high attrition rates of funds and little evidence of differential manager skill. We...
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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities
Hanson, Gordon H. - 1995
In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages : Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladoras
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995
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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Misfits in the Car Industry : Offshore Assembly Decisions at the Variety Level
Head, Keith - 2019
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 the car assembly relocated to low-wage countries. We show that …
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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019
U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
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