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The Effects of Offshore Assembly on Industry Location : Evidence from U.S. Border Cities

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

combine data on employment and earnings in two-digit manufacturing industries for U.S. border cities with data on employment …

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …

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

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

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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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China...

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2017

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

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Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

Baker, Scott R. - 2016

find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

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Health, Employment, and Disability : Implications from the Undocumented Population

Borjas, George J. - 2018

Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially faster than the population. It is difficult to estimate how much of this increase is explained by changes in population health, as we often lack a valid counterfactual. We...

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The slowdown in the economic assimilation of immigrants : aging and cohort effects revisited again

Borjas, George J. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 9 (2015) 4, pp. 483-517

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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2012

-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …

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