pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and … on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by …

growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U … impossible to fully assess the impact that mismeasurement and cost savings from outsourcing and offshoring have had on measured ….S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant bias to manufacturing and, where offshoring is involved, aggregate …

least judging by the many public policies designed to counteract this offshoring of pollution. The evidence, however, is … past thirty years, the United States does not appear to have been offshoring pollution by importing polluting goods …The question posed by the title of this article has been at the heart of debates about pollution havens, industrial …

According to Research Associate Thomas I. Palley, global outsourcing represents a new economic challenge that calls for … a new set of institutions. In this brief, he expands upon the problems of offshore outsourcing as outlined in Public … Policy Brief no. 86 and focuses on the microeconomic foundations. He argues that outsourcing is a central element of …