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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
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The march of the techies : technology, trade, and job polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016
techies in 2002 saw greater polarization, and grew faster, from 2002 to 2007. Offshoring reduced employment growth. Among blue …
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Unpacking global shocks
Graziano, Alejandro G.; Tian, Yuan - 2024
Economy-wide shocks affect demand, supply, and intermediary sectors simultaneously. We dissect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international trade by combining information from customs records, smartphone-based human mobility, and container ship port calls. We find that local disruptions...
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Offshoring along the production chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009
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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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
multinationals, are less likely to rely on imported or internally provided services. -- international trade ; services ; off-shoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937283
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Per capita income and the demand for skills
Caron, Justin; Fally, Thibault; Markusen, James R. - 2017
Almost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international trade). Here, we add a role for income-dependent demand...
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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union
Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
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World-trade growth accounting
Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey K. - 2016 - This draft: March 2016
We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...
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CO2 embedded in trade : trends and fossil fuel drivers
Weber, Sylvain; Gerlagh, Reyer; Mathys, Nicole A.; … - 2019
The amount of CO2 embedded in trade has substantially increased over the last decades. We study the trends and some drivers of the carbon content of trade over the period 1995-2009. Our main findings are the following. First, the mix of traded goods tends to have higher emission intensity than...
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The causal effect of the Dollar on trade
Ma, Sai; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim; Zhang, Shaojun - 2020
This paper establishes a causal link between the dollar exchange rate and international trade flows, employing a new instrument for the U.S. Dollar that is based on domestic U.S. housing activity (Ma and Zhang (2019)). In line with the dominant currency paradigm (Gopinath et al. (2020)), import...
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