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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages : Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladoras

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995

In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which correspond to an increase in outsourcing by...

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Statistics to Measure Offshoring and its Impact

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We identify "first generation" statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs … demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A limitation of these statistics is that they cannot be used to measure the … impact on real wages, and for that purpose, we need price-based measures of offshoring. More recently, "second generation …

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The impact of international trade on wages

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000

Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...

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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007

major factor in the surge in educational wage differentials. Polarization set in during the late 1980s with employment …

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The Race between Education and Technology : The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007

U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and then decreased in several stages over the next eight decades. But starting in the early 1980s the labor market premium to skill rose sharply and by 2005 the college wage premium...

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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality : Re-Assessing the Revisionists

Autor, David H. - 2005

visible in a recent "polarization" of skill demands in which employment has expanded in high-wage and low-wage work at the …

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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and nonproduction workers. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technical change is measured by the shift towards high-technology capital such...

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The Decline of Non-Competing Groups : Changes in the Premium to Education, 1890 to 1940

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1995

Between 1890 and the late 1920s the premium to high school education declined substantially for both men and women. In 1890 ordinary office workers, whose positions generally required a high school diploma, earned almost twice what production workers did. But by the late 1920s they earned about...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since the early 1970s. While educational earnings differentials have expanded dramatically in the U.S. in the 1980s, the college wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In...

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