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from a low-wage country. Offshoring an intermediate is only profitable when it has matured sufficiently and the savings in … for parts that are only exported later, consistent with offshoring becoming gradually more difficult. …
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
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. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
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–South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply a decrease in the ratio …
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. -- globalization ; outsourcing ; offshoring ; downsizing ; working conditions ; subjective well-being ; job satisfaction …This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying …
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outsourcing and the lowest in foreign vertical integration. We find that robot adopters fragment their production further by … probability of adoption intensifies the effects on outsourcing and weakens the effects on vertical integration. In contrast to …
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domestic and foreign plants. To do so, we examine the first wave of light-truck offshoring to Mexico that occurred due to … and Mexico for the same models of light trucks. Using a new dataset that details the extent of offshoring and domestic … “inshoring” the more complex varieties while offshoring the less complex versions. …
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improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …
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This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...
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