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Lipsey, Robert E. - 2002

Fears that production abroad would cause home country exports and employment to fall have not been confirmed by evidence. Multinational operations have led to a shift by parent firms in the United States toward more capital- intensive and skill- intensive domestic production. However, that type...

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Characteristics of U.S. Manufacturing Companies Investing Abroad and their Choice of Production Locations

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1983

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations among characteristics of U.S. firms, their tendency to invest abroad, and their choice of production locations. The larger the firm, and the higher its profitability, capital intensity, technological Intensity, and the skill level ofits labor...

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Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1976

direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …

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Exports and Foreign Investment in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1975

The relationship between direct investment and trade has always been recognized as one of the most difficult aspects of the study of multinational companies and their impact on their own countries and their affiliates' host countries. We cannot solve the fundamental dilemma of the inability to...

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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...

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Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms' Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad

Borga, Maria - 2004

intensity. Affiliates that export are more sensitive to these factors in their choice of factor proportions than affiliates that …

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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China versus the World

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2007

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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On the persistence of the China shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents

Autor, David - 2016

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …

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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence

Autor, David H. - 2013

In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by …

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