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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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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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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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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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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 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779238
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Mexico : Human Capital Effects on Wages and Productivity
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2006
The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to...
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