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There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …
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There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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countries, we find that offshoring generally lowers employment in manufacturing firms, and seems to increase the percentage of …In South Africa, the manufacturing sector - important for growth and employment creation - has shown declining growth …, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities …
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high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did … not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and …
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Liberalization of foreign trade and investment raises the domestic ratio of skilled to unskilled wages (skill premium) if the country has a sufficiently well-educated workforce, but lowers it otherwise. Wide wage inequality is undesirable on equity grounds, especially in poor countries where the...
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to workers’ incomes and employment, while firms that import intermediate production stages (“offshoring”) display bigger … employment responses to small changes in workers’ wages, and are more likely to shut down home factories. But offshoring also … helps firms weather economic shocks. Offshoring firms are more likely to survive and provide greater employment stability to …
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The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …. Industries with larger growth in imports from Mexico do not experience a decline in their routine employment share in the USA …
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international trade. Offshoring-the cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services which facilitate country …
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