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Trade Integration, Outsourcing and Employment in Austria: A Decomposition Approach

Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

outsourcing in the Austrian economy over the periods 1995-2000 and 2000-2005. Based on an input-output framework, we apply a … coefficients and final demand components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates …

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Global Growth Processes: Technology Diffusion, Catching-up and Effective Demand

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2004

This paper analyses two issues that were characteristic of the global growth processes of the 1980s and 1990s (i) an important diffusion process of a new general purpose technology (GPT) and (ii) a speed-up of catching-up of a sub-group of developing economies (South East Asia, later China and...

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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth

Wörz, Julia - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 1970

This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita income growth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-run growth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...

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Capacities and Absorptive Barriers for International R&D Spillovers through Intermediate Inputs

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Abstract Trade in goods and services is likely to be an important channel for international knowledge diffusion. This paper considers the extent of R&D spillovers through intermediate inputs for a sample of up to 40 developed and developing countries. Results suggest that such spillovers are...

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Offshoring and the Elasticity of Labour Demand

Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012

This paper examines the impact of offshoring on labour elasticities for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 …-2009 using the recently compiled World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Including measures of narrow and broad offshoring, as well … as indicators of manufacturing and services offshoring, in conditional and unconditional labour demand equations we find …

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Offshoring and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand

Vries, Gaaitzen De; Foster-McGregor, Neil; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012

In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour … cross-industry dimension and split employment into three skill categories. Our results indicate that while offshoring has …

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Reallocation Gains in a Specific Factors Model with Firm Heterogeneity

Bekkers, Eddy; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2011

We study firm heterogeneity in a specific factors model to address the effect of factor mobility on reallocation gains from trade. A model is proposed with Melitz-type firm heterogeneity with two sectors, two countries and two fixed factors and one factor mobile across sectors. Equilibrium in...

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Trade in Services and Trade in Goods: Differences and Complementarities

Lennon, Carolina - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we explore empirically to what extent the determinants of trade in services differ from those of trade in goods. Second, by the use of instrumental variables, we explore potential complementarities between bilateral trade in goods and bilateral trade...

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Import Prices, Income, and Inequality

Bekkers, Eddy; Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012

We compare three theoretical explanations for the positive empirical relationship between importer income per capita and traded goods prices. A first explanation is that consumers with higher incomes demand higher quality goods with higher prices. A second explanation is that wealthier people...

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Globalization and Its Impact on Labour

Feenstra, Robert C. - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2007

discussion of the impact of global economic integration upon labour markets the impact of outsourcing upon wage structures and … upon productivity, the effects of NAFTA upon the US, Mexican and Canadian economies, the issue of outsourcing in services …

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