Responding to Data Trafficking by Promoting Good Governance eastwestcenter.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eastwestcenter.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Offshoring is a controversial aspect of globalisation, and its impact on source country welfare remains ambiguous. This column analyses the impacts of offshoring on local labour market outcomes in Japan. It finds that offshoring exposure led to higher local employment, and particularly for non-offshoring firms. Furthermore, offshoring helped mitigate the negative effects of
Participation in global value chains is commonly seen as an important driver of productivity growth. This column uses Japanese firm-level data to estimate the productivity-enhancing impacts of participation. On average, firms that form part of global value chains are found to exhibit higher productivity than non-participating firms. In addition, longer partitipation in
RIETI - Exogenous shocks, industrial policy, and the US semiconductor industry rieti.go.jp - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rieti.go.jp Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What can explain the small or even negative effects of regional trade agreements on trade? Using trade data between Japan and other 68 countries from 2002 to 2018, this column argues that RTAs reduce fixed costs for foreign direct investment more than exporters. This could have a negative effect on trade. A simulation exercise indicates that introducing RTA between Japan and