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In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour demand for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 2009. The paper uses data from the recently compiled World-Input-Output-Database (WIOD) to estimate a system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099915
In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour demand for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 2009. The paper uses data from the recently compiled World-Input-Output-Database (WIOD) to estimate a system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686975
from trade. A model is proposed with Melitz type firm heterogeneity with two sectors, two countries and two fixed factors … welfare gains from trade liberalization are larger in countries with a lower substitution elasticity. Furthermore, it is shown … that the immobile production factor in the comparative disadvantage sector can still gain from trade liberalization due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294918
from trade. A model is proposed with Melitz-type firm heterogeneity with two sectors, two countries and two fixed factors … welfare gains from trade liberalization are larger in countries with lower substitution elasticity. Furthermore, it is shown … that the immobile production factor in the comparative disadvantage sector can still gain from trade liberalization due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099906
from trade. A model is proposed with Melitz type firm heterogeneity with two sectors, two countries and two fixed factors … welfare gains from trade liberalization are larger in countries with a lower substitution elasticity. Furthermore, it is shown … that the immobile production factor in the comparative disadvantage sector can still gain from trade liberalization due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376072
from trade. A model is proposed with Melitz-type firm heterogeneity with two sectors, two countries and two fixed factors … welfare gains from trade liberalization are larger in countries with lower substitution elasticity. Furthermore, it is shown … that the immobile production factor in the comparative disadvantage sector can still gain from trade liberalization due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649644
from trade. A model is proposed with Melitz type firm heterogeneity with two sectors, two countries and two fixed factors … welfare gains from trade liberalization are larger in countries with a lower substitution elasticity. Furthermore, it is shown … that the immobile production factor in the comparative disadvantage sector can still gain from trade liberalization due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371851
levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are especially important in the context of international trade as … these determine the dynamics of comparative advantages and the resulting trade structures between developing and developed …-up processes and their links to dynamic comparative advan- tages and trade structures. In the second part we present an econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294574
indicators based on a value added rather than gross trade basis and emphasis on the actual (domestic) value added creation due to … exports are needed for policy-makers and researchers to draw a more accurate picture of the link between trade and value added … established in the literature such as the degree of vertical specialisation, value added trade and global value chain income, we …
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There is evidence that Europe's manufacturing activity is increasingly concentrated in a Central European (CE) core which the IMF in a recent publication also refers to as the German-Central European supply chain. This CE manufacturing core is dominated by Germany and in addition comprises...
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