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Service offshoring, Productivity, and Employment : Evidence From the United States

Amiti, Mary - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 …, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …

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Production offshoring and investment by Japanese firms

Kang, Joong Shik; Piao, Shi - 2015

operating mainly in domestic markets. On the back of a trend increase in production offshoring, investment by large companies …

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Offshore currency markets : non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) in Asia

Schmittmann, Jochen Markus; Teng, Chua Han - 2020

Non-deliverable forward (NDF) markets in many Asian emerging market currencies are large, rapidly growing, and often exceed onshore markets in transaction volume. NDFs tend to price significant depreciation during market stress episodes including COVID-19. Spillovers from NDFs to onshore markets...

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Technological changes, offshoring, and the labor share

Lian, Weicheng - 2019

Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changes within individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the labor share of income can be traced to the relocation of activities between countries. I develop a two-country...

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The Welfare Implications of Services Liberalization in a Developing Country : Evidence from Tunisia

Jouini, Nizar - 2013

We propose an integrated method based on a two-sector small open economy dynamic and stochastic general equilibrium model to estimate non-tariff barriers and quantify the impact of services liberalization. The major component of trade barriers is explicitly modeled through the introduction of...

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The welfare implications of services liberalization in a developing country : evidence from Tunisia

Jouini, Nizar; Rebei, Nooman - 2013

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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies

Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

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Make in India : which exports can drive the next wave of growth?

Anand, Rahul; Kochhar, Kalpana; Mishra, Saurabh - 2015

Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...

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Deepening the EU's single market for services

Ebeke, Christian; Frie, Jan-Martin; Rabier, Louise - 2019

The services sector is increasingly important for the euro area economy, but productivity growth in the sector has stalled over the past two decades. Remaining barriers to cross-border trade in services within the EU Single Market contribute to this weak performance. Our empirical analysis...

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The EU services directive : gains from further liberalization

Fernández Corugedo, Emilio; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2014

The EU Services Directive was adopted in 2006 to foster competition in services across Europe. However, progress in liberalizing services has fallen short of expectations due to the article 15 of the Directive, which allows countries to maintain pre-existing restrictions if judged necessary to...

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