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Driving forces of Asian international production networks: A brief history and theoretical perspectives
Anukoonwattaka, Witada - In: India: A New Player in Asian Production Networks?, …
Chapter I of this study presents a brief review of the appearance and expansion of the Asian IPN phenomenon, followed by a literature survey that explores key drivers of this phenomenon from theoretical perspectives. Theories point to important conditions that countries must meet in order to be...
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India: A New Player in Asian Production Networks?, Studies in Trade and Investment 75
Anukoonwattaka, Witada (contributor); Mikic, Mia (contributor) - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
While the IPN phenomenon has accelerated trade and investment linkages between countries in East and South-East Asia, the remainder of the region has not matched those countries in this process. The objective of this study is to explore the reasons for this by using India’s performance in the...
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U.S. Manufacturing: Productivity, Offshoring, and Imports
Manzan, Sebastiano; Ross, Howard N. - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 2875-2883
The impact of offshoring on average labor productivity is investigated on a panel of 17 manufacturing sectors between … 1989-2006. As proxies for offshoring, we use imports and import penetration, defined as the ratio of imports to output. We …
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Offshoring in the Global Economy: Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications
Feenstra, Robert C. - The MIT Press
workers in the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra offers a …, prices, and productivity on the macroeconomics of offshoring. In a concluding chapter, he addresses the broader implications … of both empirical and theoretical work on offshoring and suggests directions for future research. Ohlin Lectures series …
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Bias Due to Input Source Substitutions: Can It Be Measured?
Diewert, Erwin; Nakamura, Alice O. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Once a business opts to purchase rather than produce an input, it can also change the source from which the product is procured. Producer price index programs face problems in dealing with price changes associated with sourcing changes. We present measures for price index bias due to sourcing...
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Offshoring and Unemployment
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …
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The Gravity of Knowledge
Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign a¢ liates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519443
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …-level data on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540814
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468618