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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake

Karabay, Bilgehan; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …

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Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA

McLaren, John; Hakobyan, Shushanik - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by industry and by geography, measuring each industry's vulnerability to Mexican imports, and each locality's dependance on vulnerable industries. We find evidence of both effects,...

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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

Chaudhuri, Shubham; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We study a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows us to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, we can use duality techniques to study the equilibrium, and despite its simplicity a rich...

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Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach

Artuc, Erhan; Chaudhuri, Shubham; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The welfare effects of trade shocks depend crucially on the nature and magnitude of the costs workers face in moving between sectors. The existing trade literature does not directly address this, assuming perfect mobility or complete immobility, or adopting reduced-form approaches to estimation....

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Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: Theory

Cameron, Stephen; Chaudhuri, Shubham; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We construct a dynamic, stochastic rational expectations model of labor reallocation within a trade model that is designed so that its key parameters can be estimated for trade policy analysis. A key feature is the presence of time-varying idiosyncratic moving costs faced by workers. As a...

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Trade Policy and Wage Inequality: A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility

Artuç, Erhan; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. We investigate the role of occupational mobility on the effects of trade...

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Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality

Harrison, Ann E.; McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

) income inequality. These include within-industry effects due to heterogeneous firms; effects of offshoring of tasks; effects …

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School-to-Career Programs and Transitions to Employment and Higher Education

Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

The 1994 Federal School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) provided more than $1.5 billion over five years to support increased career preparation activities in the country's public schools. However, the STWOA was not re-authorized, so state governments face decisions about levels of funding...

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Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?

Neumark, David; Johnson, Hans P.; Mejia, Marisol Cuellar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...

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Credit Constraints in Education

Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints are increasingly important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...

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