Trade in Value Added, Jobs and Investment

Ahmad, Nawaz; Ribarsky, Jennifer

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“…While insightful contributions, they have all focused on an individual country, and thus do not help to shed further light on one of the foundational aspects of GVCs, i.e., their international nature. To tackle this issue, an OECD Expert Group has recently started working on a core statistical response through the development of what have become known as extended SU tables to be generated within national statistical production systems that could then be merged to allow for inter-country analyses (Ahmad & Ribarsky, 2014). Although a number of countries such as the US (Fetzner & Strassner, 2015), the Netherlands (Chong, Van Beveren, Verbiest, & Van der Wal, 2016), Mexico (INEGI, 2017), and Costa Rica (Saborío, 2015) have made significant advances on this front, with plans to mainstream these activities in their regular statistical production systems, for many other countries it may still take some time before they will be able to generate such tables.…”

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Accounting for firm heterogeneity in global value chains

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The growing interest in global value chains (GVCs) has been paired with a greater appreciation of the need for better measurement methods, as reflected by recent initiatives from academia and leading international organizations. This research note focuses on one method to measure GVCs that has been recommended in recent scholarly work, namely input-output models, but goes beyond the industry level of analysis by introducing intra-industry firm heterogeneity. Our illustrative application to multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms' participation in GVCs enhances our understanding of their specific role in GVCs and how such engagement varies across countries and industries. While showing that MNEs' contribution to value-added exports is considerably smaller than what is suggested by traditional trade statistics, our findings also, interestingly, document that the higher import content of exports of MNEs can go hand in hand with the creation of local backward linkages as a function of their much higher specialization in only parts of the production process vis-à-vis domestic firms. By answering relevant questions on MNEs' engagement in GVCs that have hitherto been impossible to address comprehensibly and in a cross-country comparative setting, this application illustrates how the methodology has great potential for international business research. Journal of International Business Studies

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“…Mais compte tenu des stratégies de croissance des multinationales, qui contrôlent la plupart des CVM, renforçant ainsi leur pouvoir et captant toujours plus de profits, les entreprises locales sont progressivement évincées (CEA, 2015). Selon certaines estimations, les 500 premières multinationales responsables de l'essentiel de la croissance dans les CVM assurent jusqu'aux trois quarts du total des échanges dans le monde (Ahmad et Ribarsky, 2014). Surtout, les multinationales accroissent les profits qu'elles retirent d'activités immatérielles de plus en plus axées sur la connaissance et les compétencesce qui, dans les faits, interdit à la plupart des entreprises d'Afrique australe de participer aux chaînes de valeur mondiales.…”

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Dynamiques Du Développement en Afrique

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Les données statistiques concernant Israël sont fournies par et sous la responsabilité des autorités israéliennes compétentes. L'utilisation de ces données par l'OCDE est sans préjudice du statut des hauteurs du Golan, de Jérusalem-Est et des colonies de peuplement israéliennes en Cisjordanie aux termes du droit international.Crédits photo : © Illustration réalisée par Aida Buendia (Centre de développement de l'OCDE) à partir des images de Smilewithme, Taparong Siri, Sidhe, Tomiganka/Shutterstock.com.Les corrigenda des publications de l'OCDE sont disponibles sur : www.oecd.org/about/publishing/corrigenda.htm.

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“…The international production‐sharing and purchases of imported intermediate inputs is found to be an important contributor to improvements in the competitiveness through their effect on productivity growth (Altomonte and Ottaviano, ). The empirical studies on global value chains find that goods exports often have large services contents, and therefore improving productivity in upstream service industries can improve the competitiveness of goods exports (Timmer et al ., a; van Ark et al ., ; Ahmad and Ribarsky, ).…”

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Productivity Growth and International Competitiveness

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2016

Review of Income and Wealth

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This paper presents a measure of effective multifactor productivity (MFP) growth for Canada, the U.S., Australia, Japan and selected EU countries. The measure differs from the standard MFP growth as it measures productivity growth in the production of different types of products instead of by industry and it captures the effect of productivity gains in both foreign and domestic upstream industries. The paper finds that the increase in effective MFP is closely associated with the decline in output price and improvement in international competitiveness. Multifactor productivity growth for small, open economies and for the production of manufacturing, investment and export goods is partly attributable to productivity gains in the production of intermediate inputs in foreign countries.

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Trade in Value Added, Jobs and Investment

Cited by 11 publications

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Accounting for firm heterogeneity in global value chains

Accounting for firm heterogeneity in global value chains

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