Search results for: EXPORT DECOMPOSITION

• Quantifying wage effects of offshoring: import- versus export-based measures of production fragmentation

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  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz
  • A. Parteka

  - Economics and Business Review - Year 2016

  In this paper we examine the implications of international fragmentation of production on wages in the light of recent methodological developments in offshoring measurement. In particular, we compare the results stemming from two ways of quantifying offshoring – the traditional one based on import statistics and the one obtained from the decomposition of gross exports and input-output information. In the empirical part of our study,...

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• Is Germany a Hub of ‘Factory Europe’ for CEE Countries?

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  • A. Kordalska
  • M. Olczyk

  - Ekonomista - Year 2019

  The goal of the paper is to decompose gross exports and imports to/from Germany for seven selected economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia for 2000 and 2014, in order to identify the role of Germany in absorbing, reflecting and redirecting CEE trade. The authors use a gross trade decomposition proposed by Bonin and Mancini (2017), which is the extended...

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