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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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We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to show how offshoring affects domestic employment within and across … in employment at the U.S. parent firm, with smaller effects at the industry and regional levels. In contrast, offshoring … firms. We introduce a new instrument for offshoring: Bilateral Tax Treaties, which reduce the cost of offshore activities …
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U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …We provide new facts about the role of multinationals in the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment between 1993 … lower employment growth than a narrow control group and accounted for 41% of the aggregate manufacturing employment decline …
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combine data on employment and earnings in two-digit manufacturing industries for U.S. border cities with data on employment …
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cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …
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A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …
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We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals … associated with more employment, particularly blue-collar employment, in the parent companies. The small Swedish-owned production … that does take place in developing countries is also associated with more white-collar employment at home. The effects on …
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which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across … impact of a flexible industry wage structure on employment, we evaluate the circumstances under which flexible wages among … industries may be employment enhancing, and the set of circumstances under which flexible wages are likely to be employment …
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greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …
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