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Implications of firm heterogeneity for offshoring, wage and employment

Chen, Xi - 2018

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

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Trade in Intermediate Producer Services under Imperfect Competition

Islyami, Aidan - 2009

In this paper a stylized CGE model is constructed to study the impact of liberalization of barriers for foreign providers of intermediate producer services under imperfect competition on the welfare, the downstream industry output, the prices of the factors of production and the pattern of...

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Firm efficiency and Input market integration Trade versus FDI

Imbruno, Michele - 2015

This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...

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Outsourcing and Firm Productivity in Irish Manufacturing

McCann, Fergal - 2009

The causality from outsourcing, defined as the procurement of inputs from outside the boundaries of the firm, to … reallocation of resources towards higher value-added activities. The international outsourcing case adds another dimension in the … outsourcing is found to lead to productivity gains, but upon closer inspection it seems that firms? international orientation and …

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Does trade integration matter for reducing intra-regional disparities? ASEAN evidence from a panel co-integration approach

Hanh, PHAM Thi Hong - 2009

Needless to say, it is necessary to study the relative scales of the trade creation effect and the trade diversion effect to evaluate success of ASEAN trade integration and to determine whether or not the intra-bloc trade share is appropriate as an indicator of the progress of reducing...

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Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, we test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows...

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Economic and Social Upgrading Dynamics in Global Manufacturing Value Chains: A Comparative Analysis

Bernhardt, Thomas; Pollak, Ruth - 2015

Recent decades have witnessed an increasing integration of developing countries into global value chains (GVCs). This growing participation in global production sharing has raised hopes for economic upgrading within such value chains. However, globalization has intensified international...

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Regional Integration and the Rule of Law

Danne, Christian - 2015

This paper constructs agreement specific instruments in order to estimate the effect of membership in a regional cooperation agreement (RCA) on institutional change. For a sample of 144 emerging and developing economies, the results show that membership in a RCA explains a significant part of...

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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Even - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …

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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks

Püschel, Julia - 2013

In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …

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