@techreport{Blanas2012Intra,
abstract = {This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 - 2005. We find strong evidence on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former effect is stronger than the latter. Moreover, we find that demand for low-skilled labour is negatively associated with intra-firm imports, while unaffected by intra-firm exports. In contrast, high-skilled labour demand is positively linked to intra-firm exports but unaffected by intra-firm imports. The last two findings put together, suggest that low-skill intensive stages of the value-added chain are mostly transferred to the US affiliates abroad, while highskill intensive ones are mostly kept within the US parents.},
address = {Kiel},
author = {Sotiris Blanas},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {F16; F23; J21; J23; 330; Multinational Companies (MNCs); intra-firm imports; intra-firm exports; employment; low-skilled workers; high-skilled workers},
language = {eng},
number = {458},
publisher = {Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)},
title = {Intra-firm trade and employment in US manufacturing},
type = {Kiel advanced studies working papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57942},
year = {2012}
}
