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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K
Bartel, Ann - 2007
This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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A General Purpose Technology at Work : The Corliss Steam Engine in the late 19th Century US
Rosenberg, Nathan - 2001
The steam engine is widely regarded as the icon of the Industrial Revolution and a prime example of a 'General Purpose Technology,' and yet its contribution to growth is far from transparent. This paper examines the role that a particular innovative design in steam power, the Corliss engine,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470233
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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities
Hanson, Gordon H. - 1995
In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...
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Multinationals, Offshoring and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Boehm, Christoph E. - 2019
U.S. manufacturing employment. Our findings suggest that offshoring by multinationals was a key driver of the observed …
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-intensive industries? We provide a decomposition of US manufacturing GHG emissions and find no evidence of offshoring either to or from the …
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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms : Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies
Kovak, Brian K. - 2017
Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
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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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
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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Does Economic Geography Matter for International Specialization?
Davis, Donald R. - 1996
There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing...
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Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
Krugman, Paul - 1990
This paper develops a two-region, two-sector general equilibriun model of location. The location of agricultural production is fixed, but ionopolistcally competitive manufacturing finns choose their location to maximize profits. If transportation costs are high, returns to scale weak, and the...
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