We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … identification strategies used, critically assess strengths and weaknesses, discuss connections with theory, and draw out potential …

unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of … fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find that the model faces a trade-off--it cannot produce both realistic dispersion … in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …

demand and wages of most U.S. native workers …

second moments of the joint distribution over individual wages, consumption and hours …