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Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David L. - 2016

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The Determinants of Outsourcing from the U. S.: Evidence from Domestic Manufacturing Industries, 1972-2002

Maxim, Belenkiy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The issue of outsourcing as a form of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been widely discussed in the recent past. In … this essay, I analyze what determines the outsourcing activity by looking at U. S. manufacturing industries between 1972 … and 2002. I concentrate on correlation between the measure of outsourcing and wages, bargaining coverage contracts …

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Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity : A Unified Approach

Antras, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa; Tintelnot, Felix - 2022

Multinational firms (MNEs) accounted for 42 percent of US manufacturing employment, 87 percent of US imports, and 84 of US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs’ input sourcing and final-good production decisions are often studied separately. Using newly...

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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade

Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014

This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...

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