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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

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The Distributional Effects of International Fragmentation

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2002

Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby firms outsource components of production to foreign markets. There is a high level of concern about unwelcome distributional effects. This paper provides a theoretical...

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Factor Price Frontiers with International Fragmentation of Multistage Production

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2003

. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a friend or an enemy to domestic labour …

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Offshoring and labor markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …

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The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …

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Offshoring and the decline of unions

Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024

factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …

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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade

Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2006: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351...

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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2008

It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing countries, as manifested in e.g. allegedly too low rates of dispute initiation. To shed light on this issue, this study analyses the determinants of developing country...

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