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The welfare costs of skill-mismatch employment
Arseneau, David M.; Epstein, Brendan - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433387
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Nominal wage rigidity and real wage cyclicality
Estevão, Marcelo M. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000988887
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Demographic Changes and International Factor Mobility
Helliwell, John F. - 2004
distribution of incomes and employment, to consider explicit measures of well-being, which have been shown to depend on far more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467742
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An Account of Global Factor Trade
Davis, Donald R. - 1998
A half-century of empirical work on the factor proportions theory has identified devise simple amendments that bring theory and data into reasonable congruence. Our study considers standard and novel hypotheses regarding the failures of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek formulation and is the first to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472028
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Price and quality dispersion in an offshoring market : evidence from semiconductor production services
Byrne, David; Kovak, Brian K.; Michaels, Ryan - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733753
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Telemigration and Development : On the Offshorability of Teleworkable Jobs
Baldwin, Richard E.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced huge numbers of employers and employees to remote work. How many of these newly remote jobs will go overseas? We offer a rough quantification based on two observations: 1) offshore work is trade in services, and 2) the number of telemigrants is the volume of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660065
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International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms
Baldwin, Richard - 2011
possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461997
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Spiders and snakes : offshoring and agglomeration in the global economy
Baldwin, Richard - 2010
Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being 'snakes' and 'spiders'. Snakes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462046
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Task Trade between Similar Countries
Grossman, Gene M. - 2008
be performed at home or abroad, but offshoring entails costs that vary by task. In equilibrium, the tasks with the … highest offshoring costs may not be traded. Among the remainder, those with the relatively higher offshoring costs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464094
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Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
Antràs, Pol - 2008
The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464361