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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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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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examines the influence exerted by skilled diasporas in fostering cross-country co-inventorship as well as R&D offshoring. The …
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This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative response of the households and income growth after a major trade liberalization in rice are analyzed aiming to answer the following questions: What type of households, in which...
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While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic for the period 1998-2003, this study examines the link between services sector...
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Recent empirical research has focused on the role of institutions in overall economic performance. This paper examines the impact of institutions on the relative performance of the service sector. Through cross-country level and growth regressions it establishes the following stylized fact:...
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The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to commit to service sector policy reforms. They compare GATS commitments with the evolution of actual policy stances over time. While there is substantial...
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