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-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …
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U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
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We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring …
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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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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …
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In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...
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The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …
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offshoring in the short run and in the long run (when technology levels are endogenous). The short-run analysis shows that when … research efforts in response to increased offshoring. In particular, the rich country always gains from increased fragmentation …
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A simple model of offshoring, which depicts offshoring as 'shadow migration,' permits straightforward derivation of … necessary and sufficient conditions for the effects on wages, prices, production and trade. We show that offshoring requires … modification of the four classic international trade theorems, so econometricians who ignore offshoring might reject the Heckscher …
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This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However …
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