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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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examines the influence exerted by skilled diasporas in fostering cross-country co-inventorship as well as R&D offshoring. The …
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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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important, concurrent dimensions of financial globalization: diversification and offshoring. The diversification dimension … refers to the increase in foreign assets and liabilities in countries' portfolios. Offshoring is related to the reallocation … cross-border holdings. However, financial globalization via offshoring displays more mixed patterns, with variations across …
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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 is the first one to show the effects of services regulations on downstream firms in the goods and services sectors in a multiple-country setting using firm-level data. The study selected a group of countries that are economically relatively services-oriented and show varying degrees...
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Globalization is creating many new trade and growth opportunities, with services trade increasingly becoming an issue for export-oriented economies. Services are important to country trade strategies, because they represent activities in which countries may have a comparative advantage, and they...
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Although many studies consider the spatial pattern of manufacturing plants in developing countries, the role of services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by...
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