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When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
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U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
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We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …
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trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the … possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects …
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offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the …In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …
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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …
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Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …
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, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …
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Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …
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