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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … limits of trade policy in boosting employment and long-term productivity growth. Policymakers should manage their … employment effects. The results reinforce some of the key findings of the earlier literature, notably the positive …
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There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …
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There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269597
firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual … in the offshoring nation increases, the overall sector employment may increase or decrease. Policies promoting free trade … normative effects of offshoring: trade in tasks increases productivity of active firms and improves welfare in the offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316816
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884431
This paper investigates the wage and employment effects of offshoring. I use firm-level data and two events in Mexico … markets and rent-sharing. Firms likely to take advantage of new offshoring opportunities increase their productivity and … as a natural experiment to identify the effects of a fall in the marginal cost of offshoring to Mexico. I find that …
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firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual … in the offshoring nation increases, the overall sector employment may increase or decrease. Policies promoting free trade … normative effects of offshoring: trade in tasks increases productivity of active firms and improves welfare in the offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005819635
findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … limits of trade policy in boosting employment and long-term productivity growth. Policymakers should manage their … employment effects. The results reinforce some of the key findings of the earlier literature, notably the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534473