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The Value of Information in International Trade : Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2002

In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary … services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides … China exported to the rest of the world. Our results suggests that gains to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong …

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Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Vertical Relationships in Drug Supply : State of Current Research

Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C.; Che, Catherine; Handel, Benjamin R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Despite their importance to the supply of prescription drugs, there has been limited research on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their vertical relationships to insurers and drug manufacturers. This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on this topic, motivates why...

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Entrepreneurship in International Trade

Rauch, James E. - 2002

Motivated by evidence on the importance of incomplete information and networks in international trade, we investigate the supply of 'network intermediation.' We hypothesize that the agents who become international trade intermediaries first accumulate networks of foreign contacts while working...

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From Beijing to Bentonville : Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?

Head, Keith - 2010

Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their … subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral …

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Changing Stability in U.S. Employment Relationships : A Tale of Two Tails

Molloy, Raven - 2020

We confront two seemingly-contradictory observations about the US labor market: the rate at which workers change employers has declined since the 1980s, yet there is a commonly expressed view that long-term employment relationships are more difficult to attain. We reconcile these observations by...

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...

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The Economics of Labor Coercion

Acemoglu, Daron - 2009

The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are "coercive", in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. We propose...

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Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2009

We study the relationship between Hispanic employment and location-specific measures of the distribution of jobs. We find that it is only the local density of jobs held by Hispanics that matters for Hispanic employment, that measures of local job density defined for Hispanic poor English...

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Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2009

Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...

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Labor Force Participation of Older Males in Korea : 1955-2005

Lee, Chulhee - 2009

This study estimates the labor force participation rate (LFPR) of older males in Korea from 1955 to 2005, and analyzes the effects of several determining factors on labor force participation decisions at older ages. The LFPR of older men increased substantially from the mid-1960s to the...

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