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Trade Policy Uncertainty, Offshoring, and the Environment: Evidence from US Manufacturing Establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
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Offshoring and job stability: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - 2012
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … services inputs calculated from the World Input Output Database (WIOD). In manufacturing we find that temporary workers face a …
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Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms
Maré, Dave C.; Sanderson, Lynda; Fabling, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors (eg, differences in...
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Globalization and Firm Performance
Catão, Luis A. V.; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023
Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296647
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Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms
Maré, Dave C.; Sanderson, Lynda; Fabling, Richard - 2014
This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors (eg, differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435275
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884332
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333326
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Does "Network Closure" Beef up Import Premium?
Muscillo, Alessio; Pin, Paolo; Razzolini, Tiziano; … - 2018
We investigate whether network closure in the supply chain can explain the heterogeneity observed in import premia. Using unique panel data on trade flows among beef farms in the Italian region of Piedmont, we analyze a purely sequential supply chain characterized by the co-existence of two...
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Why Are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles G.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...
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