Offshore production and skill upgrading by Japanese manufacturing firms

By Keith Head, John Ries. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Outward FDI and Local Employment Growth in Italy (2008, background): “For a review of this literature, see Head and Ries (2004), who conclude that substitution prevails in the case of particular products, but there is also some evidence of complementarity deriving from exports of intermediate goods to the foreign affiliate.”
Home- and Host-Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment (2004, background): “A different conclusion is reached by Head and Ries (2002) for the foreign operations of Japanese firms.”
Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals (2005, neutral): “Head and Mayer (2002) examine whether market potential is an important factor for the location choice of Japanese MNEs. Based on the same affiliate-level data as we use, Buch, Kleinert, Lipponer and Toubal (2004) study the location choice of German MNEs and argue that, on average, market access is a”
How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy (2006, neutral): “Vertical FDI could reduce the demand for unskilled labour in the home economy and increase the demand for skilled labour, as emphasized by Head and Ries (2002) and Hanson (2001) and as also emerging from the evidence on outsourcing reported above.”
Offshoring and Labor Markets (2018, background): “52 In this sense, BEM (2013) also fit into the empirical literature on FDI and MNCs (e.g. Slaughter 2000, Head and Ries 2002, and Harrison and McMillan 2011). measure offshoring as the ratio of MNC affiliate employment to total employment.”
GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS: A SURVEY OF DRIVERS AND MEASURES (2016, neutral): “China’s processing trade regime raises additional challenges to the measurement of the foreign content of exports, because it invalidates the Hummels et al. (2001) assumption that imported inputs are used evenly in production for domestic sales and for exports.”
Productivity Impacts of Offshoring and Outsourcing: A Review (2006, methodology): “…ratio level Skilled cost share level Strauss-Kahn France Manufacturing 1977-1993 Offshore Share of unskilled employment growth Plant level Head & Ries (2002) Japan Manufacturing 1965-1990 Offshore Non-production cost share Multinationals + n/a High Low High-skilled + 0 Low-skilled 0 -”
Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution (2006, background): “Becker also gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung.”
Evaluating the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using a Difference-in-Differences Matching Approach (2006, background): “Also, Head and Ries (2002) show that non-production workers are on average more skilled than production workers.”
Foreign outsourcing and firm-level characteristics: Evidence from Japanese manufacturers (2005, background): “7 No other firm-level outsourcing data used by previous studies have distinguished foreign from domestic outsourcing, including the data of 1070 Japanese manufacturers by Head and Ries (2002) or the firm-level data from three U.K. manufacturing sectors by Girma and Gorg (2002).”