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The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing
Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009
offshoring and international trade. …
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550423
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The Impact of Trade on Aggregate Productivity and Welfare with Heterogeneous Firms and Business Cycle Uncertainty
Thia, Jang Ping - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
This paper presents a model with monopolistic competition, productively heterogeneous firms, and business cycle aggregate shocks. With firm-specific productive heterogeneity, weaker firms quit when faced with a negative aggregate shock. Consequently, trade does not always increase firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220062
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Evolution of Locations, Specialisation and Factor Returns with Two Distinct Waves of Globalisation
Thia, Jang Ping - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
This paper presents an economic geography model with two differentiated sectors that exhibit weaker inter and stronger intra-industry input-output linkages. Labour is also differentiated according to skills in a hierarchy of tasks they can perform. Globalisation occurs in two distinct phases,...
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