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Offshoring: Big Deal or Business as Usual?

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  • Alan S. Blinder, 2007. "Offshoring: Big Deal or Business as Usual?," Working Papers 2007-6, Princeton University. Economics Department..
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    Keywords

    Free Trade; Outsourcing; Trade; Wage;
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    JEL classification:

    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • L24 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Contracting Out; Joint Ventures
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity

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