Essays on International Trade and Development

<p>This dissertation consists of three essays. Using firm-level data from Korea, the first and second chapter examine Korean firms' offshoring strategies and the impact of these offshoring activities on firm-level employment in Korea. In the third chapter, the recent pattern of wage inequality is decomposed using an individual-level Korean labor income survey. This dissertation finds the role of industry capital intensity and firm productivity in the differential choices of global sourcing such as vertical FDI and foreign outsourcing. Also, this dissertation finds that input substitutability and firm exports can affect the impact of offshoring on firms' domestic labor demand. Finally, this dissertation finds various workers' characteristics that have affected wage inequality across various quartiles.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Lee, JAE YOON

Contributors dc:contributor

• Devashish Mitra

• Firm Boundaries
• Global Sourcing
• Offshoring
• Wage Inequality
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://surface.syr.edu/etd/219

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:surface.syr.edu:etd-1219