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The Evolution of Comparative Advantage : Measurement and Welfare Implications

Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2011

We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...

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Managerial Incentives and the International Organization of Production

Helpman, Elhanan; Grossman, Gene M. - 2021

relevant prevalence of outsourcing and foreign direct investment …

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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is it Justified?

Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-jin - 2022

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity

Feenstra, Robert C.; Spencer, Barbara J. - 2021

We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing …. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions …

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Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows

Bombardini, Matilde - 2009

Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage? While it is established that a country's aggregate endowment of human capital is an important determinant of comparative advantage, this paper investigates whether the distribution of skills in the labor force can play a role in the...

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Quality Competition Versus Price Competition Goods : An Empirical Classification

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2010

Based on the recent trade models of the Heterogeneous Firms Trade (HFT) model and the Quality Heterogeneous Firms Trade (QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find a high proportions of quality-competition goods for...

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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and Developing Economies

Rodrik, Dani - 2018

countries in traditionally labor-intensive manufacturing (and other) activities, and decreases their gains from trade. Second …

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Do Rich and Poor Countries Specialize in a Different Mix of Goods? Evidence from Product-Level Us Trade Data

Schott, Peter K. - 2021

Unit values of US imports at the product level reveal a substantial degree of vertical product differentiation among countries exporting to the US. This specialization is not apparent by looking solely at trade flows. Two trends stand out. First, the portion of US import products originating in...

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Do Low-Income Countries Have a High-Wage Option?

Rodrik, Dani - 2010

Poor countries must specialize in standardized. labor-intensive commodities. Middle income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labor force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...

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Openness, Specialization, and Productivity Growth in Less Developed Countries

Weinhold, Diana - 2012

we first define a Herfindahl index of production specialization for the manufacturing sector in 39 countries. We then … countries, the index of specialization is positively and significantly correlated with manufacturing productivity growth. We …

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