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We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider the reverse flow or 'inshoring' which is the sale of services produced in the United States to unaffiliated buyers in China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for...
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Global production sharing is determined by international cost differences and frictions related to the costs of unbundling stages spatially. The interaction between these forces depends on engineering details of the production process with two extremes being 'snakes' and 'spiders'. Snakes are...
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We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two understudied aspects: it deals with service trade (most studies deal with manufacturing trade) and it examines the historical first of U.S. workers competing with educated but...
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allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International …We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …
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focuses on tradable tasks and use it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country. We …
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This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic … shares of potentially offshorable quot;non-clericalquot; and clerical occupations in total employment. The results show a … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However …
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effects of globalization, with offshoring to low wage countries and imports both associated with wage declines for US workers …We suggest that the impact of globalization on wages has been missed because its effects must be captured by analyzing … occupational exposure to globalization. In this paper, we extend our previous work to include recent years (2003-2008), a period of …
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This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms’ reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure – produced- good imports – that is readily observed in most firm …
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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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-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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