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In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on...
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Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to … of international fragmentation of production in Europe, looking at how it affects relative labor demand. Models of trade … change in the relative factor intensities of the affected industries. We use international trade data specifically related to …
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significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …
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comes from the use of an index newly constructed using data on trade in parts and components to measure inter …-industry variations in the degree of international vertical specialization (fragmentation intensity of trade). It also employs a … methodology designed to embody peculiarities of Japan's fragmentation trade pattern. While the findings of existing studies are …
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exported. We propose a relative measure of VS-based trade that combines information from Input-Output matrices and … international trade data, producing results for a large sample of individual countries and geographical areas with a detailed … product breakdown over the 1967-2005 period. This measure identifies a country’s trade flow as associated with VS activities …
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Portuguese economy. The empirical trade literature suggests different measures of fragmentation, changing the scope of the … Input-Output matrices together with international trade data and those that look at specific elements of international … transactions, namely trade in parts and components and outward-inward processing trade. In this paper, we survey the different …
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very small — only 0.13 percent of GDP by 2025. Taking into account the un-equalizing effect of trade on wages, this paper … potential gains of the TPP, and more than five times as large as the possible gains resulting from a much broader trade agenda. …
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This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region over the past 20 years, based on the available economic and social indicators, and with its own past economic performance. Among the results it finds that Mexico ranks 18th out of 20 Latin American...
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In this paper, we use detailed trade and transactions data for the U.S. manufacturing sector to empirically analyze the … direction and magnitude of the association between firm-level exposure to trade and the volatility of employment growth. We find … in terms of the duration of time and intensity with which firms trade, the number and type of products they trade and the …
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initial exposure to trade in the 1970s were disproportionately affected by the ensuing dollar appreciation in the 1980s, and … Melitz model extension with sunk fixed costs, which leads to a dynamic gravity equation whereby shocks to trade have …
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