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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in … an outsourcing equilibrium than in a regime of no outsourcing. Consumer welfare rises, and under fairly plausible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703445
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328902
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884208
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873503
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333315
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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy; … - 2016
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...
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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports: Evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020
This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207722
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Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility through Trade Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam
Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2022
's own tariff reductions, which do not seem to have any statistically significant impact on mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351782
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Mending the Gap: Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo Medeiros, Diego - 2022
Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th...
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On Trade Policy Preference and Offshoring Ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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