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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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Product Variety, the Cost of Living and Welfare Across Countries

Cavallo, Alberto; Feenstra, Robert C.; Inklaar, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use the structure of the Melitz (2003) model to compare the cost of living and welfare across countries, while incorporating product variety measured by the count of barcodes or firms. For 47 countries, we compare welfare relative to the United States to conventional measures of real...

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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 ‘China Shock’, Exports and U.S. Employment : A Global Input-Output Analysis

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input …

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