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Import competition, domestic regulation and firm-level productivity growth in the OECD
Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean M. - 2012
consistent with a neo-Schumpeterian view of trade and regulation. Close to the technology frontier, import competition has a … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are … substantially. However, far from the frontier, neither import competition nor its interaction with domestic regulation has a …
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825071
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skillwage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943758
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944285
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944721
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Measuring 'Factoryless' Manufacturing : Evidence from US Surveys
Kamal, Fariha - 2013
"Factoryless" manufacturers, as defined by the U.S. OMB, perform underlying entrepreneurial components of arranging the factors of production but outsource all of the actual transformation activities to other specialized units. This paper describes efforts to measure "factoryless" manufacturing...
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The Effects of Outward FDI and Export on Firm Productivity in Emerging Markets : Evidence from Matching Approach
Zhou, Chao - 2021
This study disentangles the effects of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and export on the productivity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249998
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Service Offshoring, Productivity, and Employment : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2011
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in...
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The life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna; Moxnes, Andreas; Ramondo, Natalia; … - 2017
model of trade and MNE activity in which the mode of serving a market depends on the well-known proximity … quantitative finding is that a reduction in trade costs triggers much larger responses in growth rates and exit rates, for young …
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Impact of Type of Export Finance on Firms’ Export Profitability : A Study of Industrial Clusters in Gujarat, India
Chugan, Pawan K. - 2017
Medium Enterprises) which face a stiff competition from the larger firms. Finance is essential not only for successful …
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