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Demiroglu, Ufuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Recent technological advances have made it economical to import some services that were not so previously, raising concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest, both as a share of GDP and in terms of its...

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Offshoring and intellectual property rights reform

Canals, Claudia; Şener, Fuat - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 17-31

This paper empirically assesses the responsiveness of US offshoring to intellectual property rights (IPR) reforms in 16 countries. We construct a measure of US offshoring at the industry level based on trade in intermediate goods, covering 23 industries for the period 1973–2006. For each...

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The Muddles over Outsourcing

Bhagwati, Jagdish; Panagariya, Arvind; Srinivasan, T. N. - EconWPA - 2004

Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to refer to … argue that clarity requires distinguishing among these various phenomena and define outsourcing explicitly as the services … the recent “outsourcing” debate. Under this definition, the total number of the U.S. jobs outsourced annually is minuscule …

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Bias Due to Input Source Substitutions: Can It Be Measured?

Diewert, Erwin; Nakamura, Alice O. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

accounts. This material makes it clear that the growth of outsourcing and the related increases in domestic and foreign …

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Moving People or Jobs? A New Perspective on Immigration and International Outsourcing

Beladi, Hamid; Chakrabarti, Avik - College of Business, University of Texas-San Antonio

outsourcing have on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality. We show that, for any given level of contractual friction in the … in contractual frictions in intermediates that affect international outsourcing. …

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Sourcing substitution and related price index biases

Nakamura, Alice O.; Diewert, W. Erwin; Greenlees, John S.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

We define a class of bias problems that arise when purchasers shift their expenditures among sellers charging different prices for units of precisely defined and interchangeable product items that are nevertheless regarded as different for the purposes of price measurement. For...

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Time zones, shift working and international outsourcing

Matsuoka, Yuji; Fukushima, Marcelo - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 19 (2010) 4, pp. 769-778

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Trade with time zone differences : factor market implications

Kikuchi, Tōru; Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - 2012

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Trade with time zone differences : factor market implications

Kikuchi, Tōru; Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - In: Review of development economics 17 (2013) 4, pp. 699-711

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International benchmarking of container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian...

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