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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …
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The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …
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We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that …
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This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the production of manufactured goods. Using new data on...
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It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur. …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …
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We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in … the country of origin. Offshoring is associated with reduced feedback from offshored plants to domestic labs as well as … static decision to relocate plants but not R&D. Hence, offshoring may be chosen by firms when it damages the growth rate of …
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rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative … wages: greater vertical specialization increases wage inequality, while greater international competition increases wage …
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