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What Drives Short-Run Labor Market Volatility in Offshoring Industries? Evidence from Northern Mexico During 2007-2009

Kaplan, David - 2017

Recent research shows that employment in Mexico's offshoring maquiladora industries is twice as volatile as employment … in their U.S. industry counterparts. The analyses in this paper use data from Mexico's social security records and U … emanating from the United States were amplified when transmitted into Mexico's offshoring labor market of Northern Mexico. First …

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Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries : Diversification vs. Offshoring

Ceballos, Francisco - 2017

Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two important, concurrent dimensions of financial globalization:...

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Task Trade between Similar Countries

Grossman, Gene M. - 2017

The authors propose a theory of task trade between countries that have similar relative factor endowments and technological capabilities but may differ in size. Firms produce differentiated goods by performing a continuum of tasks, each of which generates local spillovers. Tasks can be performed...

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Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys

Ebenstein, Avraham Y. - 2017

The authors link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys. They find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with larger wage effects than industry exposure. This effect has been overlooked because it...

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Timeliness and Contract Enforceability in Intermediate Goods Trade

Gamberoni, Elisa - 2017

This paper shows that the institutional environment and the ability to export on time are sources of comparative advantage as important as factors of production. In particular, the ability to export on time is crucial to explain comparative advantage in intermediate goods. These findings...

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The Offshore Services Value Chain : Developing Countries and the Crisis

Gereffi, G. - 2017

This paper analyzes the recent evolution and impact of the global economic crisis on the offshore services industry. Using a global value chains framework, the authors classify the offshore services sector in a comprehensive set of general and industry-specific activities that correspond to...

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Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology

Miguélez, Ernest - 2017

This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals -- that is, inventors -- on international technological collaborations. Using gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...

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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers

Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2006

effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex … and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an increasing share …

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Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty

Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017

examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …

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Moderate Inflation

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. The authors introduce types of theories of...

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