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Outsourcing Tariff Evasion : A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade

International Monetary Fund - 2005

Traditional explanations for indirect trade carried out through an entrepôt have focused on savings in transport costs and on the role of specialized agents in processing and distribution. We provide an alternative perspective based on the possibility that entrepôts may facilitate tariff...

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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is it Justified?

Amiti, Mary - 2004

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

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Labor market informality and the business cycle

Lambert, Frederic; Pescatori, Andrea; Toscani, Frederik - 2020

Labor market informality is a pervasive feature of most developing economies. Motivated by the empirical regularity that the labor informality rate falls with GDP per capita, both at business cycle frequency and in a cross-section of countries, and that the Okun's coefficient falls with the...