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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …
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We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population …
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We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …
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We estimate how offshoring and exporting affect wages by skill type. Our data match the population of Danish workers to … countries. Our data reveal new stylized facts about offshoring activities at the firm level, and allow us to both condition our … identification on within-job-spell changes and construct instruments for offshoring and exporting that are time varying and …
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-connected exchanges on digital platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for …
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Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...
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