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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …
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Agglomeration, Trade and Selection
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This paper studies how firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity affects the balance between agglomeration and dispersion forces in the presence of pecuniary externalities through a selection model of monopolistic competition with variable mark-ups. It shows that firm heterogeneity matters....
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The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports
Carballo, Jerónimo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We use highly disaggregated firm-level export data from Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Uruguay over the period 2005-2008 to provide a precise characterization of firms' export margins, across products, destination countries, and crucially customers. We show that a firm's number of buyers and the...
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Global Value Chains During the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect?
Altomonte, Carlo; Mauro, Filippo Di; Ottaviano, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This paper analyzes the performance of global value chains during the trade collapse. To do so, it exploits a unique transaction-level dataset on French firms containing information on cross-border monthly transactions matched with data on worldwide intra-.rm linkages as defined by property...
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