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Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization / Andrew B. Bernard, Teresa C. Fort, Valerie Smeets, Frederic Warzynski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernard, Andrew B.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26854.
- NBER working paper series no. w26854
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Heterogeneous Globalization
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they offshore to low-wage countries. This shift towards "produced-good imports" coincides with a reallocation of labor from physical production to innovation and technology occupations, and an increase in domestically-produced varieties' unit values. These responses suggest an additional, firm-level benefit of trade liberalization: the opportunity to offshore production of low-quality varieties, thereby freeing up domestic resources for the development, production, and marketing of higher-quality varieties. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm-level datasets.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2020.
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