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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on...
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The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing growth has been widely studied in the literature. What has gone unappreciated is that accelerated manufacturing growth has also been accompanied by accelerated services growth. Using firm-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from...
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How Distortive are Turnover Taxes? Evidence from Replacing Turnover Tax with VAT
Xing, Jing; Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Hou, Xipei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for some service industries in China, while the taxation of manufacturing …
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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Do Financial Frictions Explain Chinese Firms’ Saving and Misallocation?
Bai, Yan - 2018
We use firm-level data to identify financial frictions in China and explore the extent to which they can explain firms …
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The Big Tech Lending Model
Liu, Lei; Lu, Guangli; Xiong, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
By comparing uncollateralized business loans made by a big tech lending program with conventional bank loans, we find that big tech loans tend to be smaller and have higher interest rates and that borrowers of big tech loans tend to repay far before maturity and borrow more frequently. These...
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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise
Markusen, James R. - 2000
Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...
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Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers
Crespi, Gustavo - 2008
This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge flows to firm-level data on TFP growth. Our data measure the information flows often considered important, especially by policy-makers, such as from within the firm and from...
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R. - 2007
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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