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THE BAZAAR EFFECT, UNBUNDLING OFCOMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, AND MIGRATION
Kohler Wilhelm - CESifo GmbH <München> - 2007
equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allowsfor several goods and two fragments, produced with … high-skilled and low-skilled labor. Iaddress wage and welfare effects under flexible wages, and under a minimum wage... …
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When is Trade Protection Good for Growth?
Minier, Jenny; Unel, Bulent - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2009
The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisinglyfragile, as shown in a number of other papers. After demonstrating this empiricalsensitivity, we address one possible explanation for these findings: that the relationshipis nonlinear. Following the endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302530
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North-South Technology Spillovers : The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...
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EXPORTS AND LOGISTICS
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil; Nelson, Benjamin D. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2009
Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we …nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870125
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large ImportShock: Evidence from the German ClothingIndustry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the Germanclothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using theGerman shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments onthe individual and firm level...
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BRAIN DRAIN WITH FDI GAIN?FACTOR MOBILITY BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERNEUROPE
De Simoney, Gianfranco; Manchin, Miriam - Centre for Comparative Economics <London> - 2008
A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration mayfavour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct in-vestments between the source and the host economies of migrants (net-work effects). We explore a speci…c channel through which the possi-ble "diaspora...
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role ofExternal Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to thepresence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanenteffects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an …
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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859492
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI:Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …
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Dynamic Effects of Offshoring
Stijepic, Denis; Wagner, Helmut - Fernuniversität <Hagen> / Fakultät für … - 2008
We analyze the effects of offshoring in a multisector-growth-model where the sectors differ by TFP-growth. Our results … imply that offshoring influences the long run grwoth rate of the economy along different channels and that the grwoth … grwoth effects can arise provided that some dependencies exist between countries. Furthermore, offshoring has an impact on …
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