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Is Offshoring Beneficial or Detrimental to Innovation in Developed Countries?
Fritsch, Ursula - 2015
This paper empirically investigates the effects of offshoring on innovation in a sample of 18 developed countries. Offshoring of services relates positively to innovation whereas offshoring of manufacturing depicts a negative relation with innovation. Solely offshoring manufacturing to...
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Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad...
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Child work and schooling under trade liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2009
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work and schooling in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district and province level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use seven rounds (1993 to...
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Assessment of the Distributive Impact of National and External Trade Reforms in Brazil
Borraz, Fernando; Rossi, Máximo; Ferres, Daniel - 2009
This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of national and external trade reform in Brazil using household survey data. We estimate the consumption and labor impact of the Mercosur trade reform following the methodology suggested by Porto (2006). In order to analyze the impact...
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2013
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
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Distributive Effects of Regional Trade Agreements on the "Small Trading Partners": Mercosur and the case of Uruguay and Paraguay
Borraz, Fernando; Rossi, Máximo; Ferrés, Daniel - 2011
Although trade integration has potential benefits for developing countries, it is disputed whether trade liberalization processes are, per se, sufficient for poverty reduction and inequality abatement. Abundant work has analyzed the link between tariff reduction, poverty levels and inequality in...
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Redistribution, Selection, and Trade
Kohl, Miriam - 2018
This paper examines the distributional effects of international trade in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and a welfare state redistributing income. The redistribution scheme is financed by a progressive income tax and gives the same absolute transfer to all individuals....
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Human Capital and Fertility in Germany after 1990: Evidence from a Multi-Spell Model
Sunder, Marco - 2010
determinants of fertility can be measured when at risk rather than ex-post, thus helping to reduce the risk of reverse causality … average, a different birth history trajectory, but with negligible curtailment of completed fertility. …
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The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility
Bick, Alexander - 2010
constitutes indeed for some females a barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility. …
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Do Couples Bargain over Fertility? New Evidence Based on Child Preference Data
Hener, Timo - 2010
couples also bargain over fertility. In contrast to earlier tests of bargaining models, our empirical approach makes use of … for fertility decisions. Our results also indicate that couples are not able to fully commit to household resource … that the effect of child benefits on fertility could be enhanced by directing transfers to women. …
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