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and diversified in their service offerings and are less likely to do so with increasing age and greater geographical scope …
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Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has affected providers' decisions to perform abortions and...
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pollutants does the service sector account for even four percent of total emissions; for three of the five services account for … less than one percent. Second, those service industries that do pollute are the least likely to be traded internationally … services are not traded. Even if we limit attention to the services that are traded across borders, the service industries most …
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The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of …
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economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been … restrictions on direct foreign investment in service sectors.Also, it may beasked why,if growth is to be the criterion of special … negotiating effort, the commodity-service dichotomy is relevant. Why not search for fast qrowing sectors amonq cammodities as well …
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Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely fresh approach? I try to identifying some of the important aspects of this phenomenon and then argue that modeling could...
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This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet communication: the AFL-CIO's Working America, a quot;community affiliatequot; that enrolled 2 million workers from 2004 to 2007 by canvassing them at their homes and over the...
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In this paper we revisit two well-known facts regarding lifecycle expenditures. The first is the familiar quot;humpquot; shaped lifecycle profile of nondurable expenditures. We document that the behavior of total nondurables masks surprising heterogeneity in the lifecycle profile of individual...
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services are now increasing more rapidly than exports, but not faster than goods imports.Because measures of service trade are … students are defined as foreign residents. Since many students later become US residents, the supposedly exported service never …
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The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been … negatively related to service outsourcing …
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