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 …

The US trade war against China in 2018-2019 can either enhance or diminish the US soft power in China, depending on …

The United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US firms to expand employment. Using a … total impact of trading with China is a positive boost to local employment and real wages. The most important factor is …

China. The novel feature of our approach is that at a very disaggregated level of individual products, we can measure … evasion relatively precisely, by comparing the values that China reports as imports from Hong Kong, with what Hong Kong … reports as exports to China. We can match up this evasion gap' with the tariff (and VAT tax) schedule at the product level …

relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is … on its ability to generate productivity increase, and domestic innovation will be an important part of it. In this paper …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …