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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New Hr Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. And U.K
Bartel, Ann P. - 2015
This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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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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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms
Kovak, Brian - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945157
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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Boehm, Christoph - 2019
U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870553
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary; Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249187
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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
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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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - 2023
-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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Does Economic Geography Matter for International Specialization?
Davis, Donald R.; Weinstein, David E. - 2021
There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing...
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Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
Krugman, Paul R. - 2021
This paper develops a two-region, two-sector general equilibriun model of location. The location of agricultural production is fixed, but ionopolistcally competitive manufacturing finns choose their location to maximize profits. If transportation costs are high, returns to scale weak, and the...
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Sizing Up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017
We argue that existence of public good does not necessarily imply market failure, and illustrate this point in the context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum because the first exporter's action creates an...
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