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could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis …
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We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand off shoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance … domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. A class of models predicts that more productive firms … engage in offshoring, and that this leads to gains in output and (measured) productivity, and potential gains in employment …
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We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance … domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. Consistent with heterogenous firm models where …-offshorer. After initiating offshoring, firms experience large declines in employment (46.2 per cent), output (38.5 per cent) and …
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This paper examines the production and political responses of the Big Three auto assemblers to the penetration of the North American market by Japanese auto assemblers over the 1955-95 period, using the technological competition model to analyze three successive challenges faced by the Big...
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on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all …-firm imports, while unaffected by intra-firm exports. In contrast, high-skilled labour demand is positively linked to intra …
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congruent mapping of categories with the international trade in services data, the available occupational employment and … offshoring” process on U.S. domestic employment and earnings in relevant services sectors. It draws upon relatively new … international services trade data sets developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), which are …
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Using firm-level data on export transactions, we uncover a rich set of results about the extensive margins of exporting and exporter responses during periods of global downturns. We perform our analysis with respect to firm size, age, ownership status, and sector to emphasize the role of firm...
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Using confidential firm-level data from the United States in 2002, we show that exporting firms charge prices for narrowly defined goods that differ substantially with the characteristics of firms and export markets. We control for selection into export markets using a three-stage estimator. We...
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illustration shows that the CFDI firms should have the highest productivity when trade costs between the U.S. and Mexico are low … consistent with this hypothesis for a period of relatively low trade costs. Our results indicate the importance of trade costs in …
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International trade exposes exporters and importers to substantial risks. To mitigate these risks, firms can buy … special trade finance products from banks. This paper explores under which conditions and to what extent firms use these … products. We find that letters of credit and documentary collections cover about 10 percent of U.S. exports and are preferred …
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