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equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …
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their home country only. Our study confirms former results of the literature that R&D offshoring is used by leading R …
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, that induces offshoring, is not necessarily welfare-enhancing for consumers, despite the lower cost of labor in the South …. In addition, firms which use the supplier's component intensively, offshore their supplier in the South using outsourcing …
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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous. Conversely, small variations in model parameters …
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In this paper we present latest facts about the R&D activities of German multinational companies abroad and R&D activities of foreign companies in Germany. These results confirm that Germany is still an attractive location for R&D activites of multinational companies in many technological...
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The paper explores theoretically and empirically why trade intermediaries (TIs) are frequently used as agents for exports to some countries but not to others. We adapt a standard intra-industry trade model with variable export costs (e.g. transport) and fixed export costs (e.g. market access) to...
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We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...
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The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to low-wage economies. This trend … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …) it increases inequality among high- and low-income groups; and (iii) the gains from outsourcing can be made Pareto …
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of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring. …
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This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …
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