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Foreign-Affiliate Activity and U.S. Skill Upgrading

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999

There has been little analysis of the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on U.S. wage inequality, even though the presence of foreign-owned affiliates in the United States has arguably grown more rapidly in significance for the U.S. economy than trade flows. Using data across U.S....

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Trade, Technology and U.K. Wage Inequality

Haskel, Jonathan - 1999

The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...

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International Trade and Labor-Demand Elasticities

Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1997

In this paper I try to determine whether international trade has been increasing the own-price elasticity of demand for U.S. labor in recent years. The empirial work yields three main results. First, from 1960 through 1990 demand for U.S. production labor became more elastic in manufacturing...

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Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel

Gandal, Neil - 2000

In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most … immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we … immigration inflow: the adoption of global changes in production technology, and national changes in the mix of traded goods …

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High-Skilled Immigration and the Rise of STEM Occupations in U.S. Employment

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we …

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