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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
When materials offshoring is measured by estimating imported intermediate inputs, a common assumption used is that an … the 3-digit I-O industry level, there is a correlation of 0.68 between the offshoring shares made with and without the …
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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity
Feenstra, Robert C.; Spencer, Barbara J. - 2021
We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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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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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages : Evidence from Mexico'S Maquiladoras
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which correspond to an increase in outsourcing by...
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Should Exact Index Numbers Have Standard Errors? Theory and Application to Asian Growth
Feenstra, Robert C.; Reinsdorf, Marshall B. - 2021
productivity (TFP) estimates of Hsieh (2002) for Singapore. We find that TFP growth is insignificantly different from zero in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228273
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Technology in the Great Divergence
Clark, Gregory; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021
In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …
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