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Statistics to Measure Offshoring and its Impact
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017
We identify “first generation” statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, “second generation …
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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand
Feenstra, Robert C.; Shiells, Clinton R. - 2021
The purpose of the paper is to measure the potential bias in the U.S. import price index due to the appearance of new product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of import demand. Existing import price indexes are based on...
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