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Topics in empirical international economics : a festschrift in honor of Robert E. Lipsey

Blomström, Magnus (ed.); Lipsey, Robert E. (honouree); … - 2001

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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks

Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...

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Trade and Production Networks of U.S. MNCs and Exports by Their Asian Affiliates

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

Network connections within MNCs seem to improve export market shares for Asian affiliates of those MNCs. In particular, Asian affiliates of U.S. MNCs export more to markets where their parent firms' exports to affiliates are larger, and less to markets where their parent firms export more to...

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Measuring International Trade in Services

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006

A particularly serious problem of measurement is the growing transfer of intangible US corporate assets to foreign affiliates of US firms, some of which use virtually no foreign factors of production. These transfers, mainly for tax saving purposes, give rise to phantom flows of services from...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010

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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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...

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The Effect of Multinational Firms' Operations on Their Domestic Employment

Kravis, Irving B. - 1988

Given the level of its production in the U.S., a firm that produces more abroad tends to have fewer employees in the U.S. and to pay slightly higher salaries and wages to them. The most likely explanation seems to be that the larger a firm's foreign production, the greater its ability to...

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Integrating Refugees : Language Training or Work-First Incentives?

Arendt, Jacob Nielsen - 2020

Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in Denmark while also temporarily lowering welfare benefits...

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The Labor Market Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Longitudinal Evidence from the 1930s

Lee, Jongkwan - 2019

We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted with the size of the Mexican communities in 1910....

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The Employment Effects of Mexican Repatriations : Evidence from the 1930's

Lee, Jongkwan - 2017

During the period 1929-34 a campaign forcing the repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans was carried out in the U.S. by states and local authorities. The claim of politicians at the time was that repatriations would reduce local unemployment and give jobs to Americans, alleviating the...

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