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International Outsourcing and the Supply Side Productivity Determinants

Goswami, Arti Grover - 2021

A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone …, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm's productivity. Academic … perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In …

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International fragmentation : boon or bane for domestic employment?

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2005

the public concern can be addressed that international fragmentation and outsourcing to low wage countries lead to … outsourcing and critically assess the role of political intervention that aims to reduce unemployment benefits under …

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Vertical Specialization, International Task Fragmentation, and Convergence

Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2021

In this paper, we construct an elaborate general equilibrium model with a continuum of production fragments for an intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small...

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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Service Offshoring and Export Experience

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Ornelas, Emanuel; Marcolin, Luca - 2021

Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...

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Decoupling Global Value Chains

Eppinger, Peter S.; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021

Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...

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Automation, Global Value Chains and Functional Specialization

Fontagné, Lionel; Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca; … - 2023

We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999–2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...

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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2008

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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Optimal Income Taxation Under Monopolistic Competition

Tarasov, Alexander; Zubrickas, Robertas - 2021

This paper is concerned with cross-dependencies between endogenous market structure and tax policy. We extend the Mirrlees (1971) model of income taxation with a monopolistic competition framework with general additively separable consumer preferences. We show that price and variety distortions...

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A Theory of Monopolistic Competition with Horizontally Heterogeneous Consumers

Kokovin, Sergej G. - 2020

Our novel approach to modeling monopolistic competition with heterogeneous consumers involves a space of characteristics of a differentiated good (consumers' ideal points), alike Hotelling (1929). Firms have heterogeneous costs à la Melitz (2003). In addition to price setting, each firm also...

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