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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic Versus Foreign Sourcing

Fort, Teresa - 2016

This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...

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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position

Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2022

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...

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Intermediaries in International Trade : Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2012

This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed...

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Discovering One's Talent : Learning from Academic Specialization

Malamud, Ofer - 2009

In addition to providing useful skills, education may also yield valuable information about one's tastes and talents. This paper exploits an exogenous difference in the timing of academic specialization within the British system of higher education to test whether education provides such...

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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : a Comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890

Haines, Michael R. - 2022

taken into account. Comparisons of Engel curves are also made to households in Great Britain and Germany. Results from …

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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors

Mohnen, Pierre; Nadiri, M. Ishaq; Prucha, Ingmar R. - 2021

.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …

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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--

King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...

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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--

King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...

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Aging in Germany and the United States : International Comparisons

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2021

subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in the two countries. Germany faces a particularly pronounced aging process … percent at its peak in 2030. In this respect, changes that are occurring in Germany now may be regarded as indicative for … changes to come in the United States. Retirement, savings and housing behavior differ quite markedly between Germany and the …

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Labor and Investment Demand at the Firm Level : a Comparison of French, German and U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-79

Mairesse, Jacques; Dormont, Brigitte - 2021

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...

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