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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter Marcel - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
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Product Market Integration and Labour Markets : Aggregate Gains at the Cost of More Inequality?
Andersen, Torben M.; Sorensen, Allan - 2021
Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room …
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources : Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics
López, Ramón - 2010
higher steady-state capital-labor ratio and manufacturing output, and unchanged NR and commodity output; iv) import and …
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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2021
manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsourcing affect wages as predicted by the theory …This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …
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Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions
Wu, Steven Y. - 2009
This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2021
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
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