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Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing

Antras, Pol - 2007

We generalize the Antras and Helpman (2004) model of the international organization of production in order to accommodate varying degrees of contractual frictions. In particular, we allow the degree of contractibility to vary across inputs and countries. A continuum of firms with heterogeneous...

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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic Versus Foreign Sourcing

Fort, Teresa - 2016

This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing … show that a firm's adoption of communication technology between 2002 to 2007 is associated with a 3.1 point increase in its … probability of fragmentation. The effect of firm technology also differs significantly across industries; in 2007, it is 20 …

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The Margins of Global Sourcing : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

Antras, Pol - 2014

We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable across destination markets, global sourcing decisions...

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Global Sourcing

Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

We present a North South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...

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Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000- employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...

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Which Workers Bear the Burden of Social Distancing Policies?

Mongey, Simon - 2020

What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by narrower policy tailored to jobs with low risk of disease transmission? We use O NET to construct a measure of the likelihood that jobs can be conducted from home (a variant of...

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Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic : Social Distancing and Working from Home

Jones, Callum - 2020

We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by reducing consumption, reducing hours worked, and working from home. Working from home is subject to learning-by-doing and the capacity of the health care system is limited. A social...

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How Many Jobs Can Be Done at Home?

Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2020

Evaluating the economic impact of "social distancing" measures taken to arrest the spread of COVID-19 raises a fundamental question about the modern economy: how many jobs can be performed at home? We classify the feasibility of working at home for all occupations and merge this classification...

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Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of Covid-19 on Employment and Health

Angelucci, Manuela - 2020

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high-frequency panel dataset from March through July of 2020,...

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Powering Work from Home

Cicala, Steve - 2021

This paper documents an increase in residential electricity consumption while industrial and commercial consumption has fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Hourly smart meter data from Texas reveals how daily routines changed during the pandemic, with usage during weekdays...

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