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examines the influence exerted by skilled diasporas in fostering cross-country co-inventorship as well as R&D offshoring. The …
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We determine how time delays affect international trade, using newly-collected World Bank data on the days it takes to …
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Recent research shows that employment in Mexico's offshoring maquiladora industries is twice as volatile as employment … emanating from the United States were amplified when transmitted into Mexico's offshoring labor market of Northern Mexico. First …
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which generates local spillovers. Tasks can be performed at home or abroad, but offshoring entails costs that vary by task …. In equilibrium, the tasks with the highest offshoring costs may not be traded. Among the remainder, those with the … relatively higher offshoring costs are performed in the country that has the higher wage and higher aggregate output. The paper …
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The authors link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current …
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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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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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World Trade Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations …
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This paper explores various strategic options available to Japanese firms faced with the increasing market pressures in the global economy. Whether Japanese firms are able to retain the competitive edge will depend on the continuing gains in their manufacturing capability, their capacity to...
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Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
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