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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration
Kohler, Wilhelm (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496505
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Uncertainty in global sourcing : learning, sequential offshoring, and selection patterns
Larch, Mario; Navarro, Leandro - 2022
uncertainty by observing offshoring firms' behaviour. The model characterises a sequential offshoring equilibrium path, led by the … Colombia, we test for the determinants and timing of offshoring decisions. We also derive spatial probit structural models to … identify the firms' dynamic trade-off when they decide on the offshoring location. We find supportive evidence for the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419347
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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations : is the EU right?
Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012
Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best policy, given that auctioning with border adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687241
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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464704
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Optimal education policies and comparative advantage
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Kneller, Richard; Riezman, Raymond … - 2009
We consider the optimal education policies of a small economy whose government has a limited budget. Initially, the economy is closed and the government chooses its education policy to maximize welfare under autarky. Then the economy trades with the rest of the world. Lastly, the government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850137
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Offshoring tasks, yet creating jobs?
Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2010
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. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965854
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Shift working and trade in labor services with time zone differences
Kikuchi, Tōru; Long, Ngo Van - 2011
Using a two-factor (labor and capital), two-good (shift-working and non shiftworking commodities) model with two countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via communication networks) on the comparative advantage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009261855
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Structural change in OECD comparative advantage
Brakman, Steven; Inklaar, Robert; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2010
In the post-war period, the goods composition of trade in OECD countries has changed considerably. We analyze the evolution of comparative advantage using a detailed trade data set and a new analytical tool: the harmonic (weighted) mass index, which enables us to identify periods of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966455
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Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view
Carluccio, Juan; Cuñat, Alejandro; Fadinger, Harald; … - 2015
fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundant countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346866
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Turkish delight for some, cold Turkey for others? : The effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union
Adam, Antonis (contributor); Moutos, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
Following Turkey's application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201728