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Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 43-64

We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modeling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...

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The Multinational Firm

Yeaple, Stephen Ross - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 193-217

This article documents the recent advances in the international trade literature toward understanding the role of multinational firms in the conduct of international commerce. Over the past 10 years, we have developed a better understanding of the incentives firms face in their choice of...

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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020

improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …

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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity

Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...

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Implications of firm heterogeneity for offshoring, wage and employment

Chen, Xi - 2018

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

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The impact of immigration on firm-level offshoring

Olney, William W.; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018

This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … of immigrants into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …

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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

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Recent Perspectives on Trade and Inequality

Harrison, Ann; McLaren, John; McMillan, Margaret - In: Annual Review of Economics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 261-289

) income inequality. These include within-industry effects due to heterogeneous firms, the effects of offshoring of tasks …

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Does outward foreign direct investment affect domestic real wages? : an investigation using French micro-data

Gazaniol, Alexandre; Laffineur, Catherine - 2015

This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...

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