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U.S. multinationals and preferential market access
Blanchard, Emily; Matschke, Xenia - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U …, we find that offshoring multinational activity and preferential market access are positively and consistently correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283581
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Service offshoring and white-collar employment
Crinò, Rosario - 2007
I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among … the high degree of censoring of the employment variable and the small cross-sectional dimension of the panel. I find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264163
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Institutions and offshoring decision
Nicolini, Marcella - 2007
affect the volume of offshoring between U.S. companies and their affiliates. The suggested argument is stronger for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264188
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Aggregate worker reallocation and occupational mobility in the United States: 1971 - 2000
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - 2002
We investigate the evolution and the sources of aggregate employment reallocation in the United States in the 1971 … different technology. We find that the total reallocation of employment across occupations has been strongly procyclical and … these patterns, while correcting for possible worker selection into employment, we construct a synthetic panel based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292926
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The lifecycle model of consumption and saving
Browning, Martin; Crossley, Thomas F, - 2001
The life-cycle framework is the standard way that economists think about the intertemporal allocation of time, effort and money. The framework has a venerable history in the economics profession with roots in the in…nite horizon models of Ramsey (1926) and Friedman (1957) and the …nite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292931
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The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic
Banks, James; Marmot, Michael; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, … - 2006
In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and how those differences vary by Socio-Economic Status (SES) in both countries. Three SES measures are emphasized - education, household income, and household wealth - and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292933
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Why is consumption more log normal than income? Gibrat's law revisited
Battistin, Erich; Blundell, Richard; Lewbel, Arthur - 2007
Significant departures from log normality are observed in income data, in violation of Gibrat’s law. We identify a new empirical regularity, which is that the distribution of consumption expenditures across households is, within cohorts, closer to log normal than the distribution of income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292940
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Competition and innovation: An inverted u relationship
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Blundell, Richard; … - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian growth model is developed in which firms innovate ѳtep-by-stepҬ and where both technological leaders and their followers engage in R&D activities. In this model, competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292944
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Survival of the best fit: Exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of US manufacturing plants
Bernard, Andrew Barnes; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, … - 2003
that plant survival as well as output and employment growth are negatively associated with the share of industry imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292945