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This study investigates the evolution of the import content of production and exports in Turkey for the 2002 … production and imported input use for 20 sectors, mainly from the manufacturing industry. We calculate import requirement ratios …, comprising both direct and indirect effects, for each sector using the Leontief inverse matrix. Our findings indicate that import …
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explanation. The studies on the issue addressed increasing import dependency of the manufacturing sector in Turkey. This paper has …The dramatic surge in imports of goods and services without a concomitant surge in exports in Turkey deserves a sound … did, but also at the other sectors of the economy. Using 1998 and 2002 Input -Output Tables, import requirement ratios …
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This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization across manufacturing sectors in a sample of EU27 economies (1995-2009). We discriminate between heterogeneous wage effects on different skill categories of workers (low, medium...
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This paper extends the literature on the implications of offshoring for labour markets by investigating its effect on the wages of different skill groups in a broad global context. The analysis draws on input-output data from the WIOD project, and in the panel analysed (13 manufacturing...
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The current globalisation process is characterized by the emergence of global value chains. That is, production processes are becoming increasingly geographically fragmented. Not only are final goods traded internationally, but in particular, trade in intermediate goods and services has...
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This paper empirically analyzes China's electrical equipment manufacturing industry in the context of global value chain (GVC) by using the GVC income approach (Timmer et al., 2013) and the World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Four major questions are addressed by measuring several different...
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The import penetration of exports has become a topic of public debate, particularly in the context of Germany … export goods and services that are relatively intensive in these factors and should import those goods and services that are …
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We use input-output tables to estimate the import content (IC) of exports for several European countries, interpreting …
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This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. The authors use a rich and recent dataset for Turkish manufacturing firms for the...
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We calibrate a closed multi-country input-output model with data from the World Input-Output Database to estimate the size of spillover effects of Germany's final demand on GDP, employment, and the trade balance in Southern European countries. We find that spillover effects are rather small....
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