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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.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …

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

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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

Autor, David H. - 2017

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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Outsourcing and Volatility

Bergin, Paul R. - 2007

While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth, recently there have been misgivings regarding its fickleness and volatility. This paper is among the first in the trade literature to study the second moment properties of...

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Political Economy, Sectoral Shocks, and Border Enforcement

Hanson, Gordon H.; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2021

In this paper, we examine the correlation between sectoral shocks and border enforcement in the United States. Enforcement of national borders is the main policy instrument the U.S. government uses to combat illegal immigration. The motivation for the exercise is to see whether border...

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Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel

Gandal, Neil; Hanson, Gordon H.; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021

In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most Russian immigrants had high education levels relative to the average Israeli. Despite the size and skill mix of the immigration shock, existing research has found little...

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Why Isn't Mexico Rich?

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …

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The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2015

extension of our approach to multivariate diffusions, in which one can permit innovations to productivity to be transmitted …

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How does your Kindergarten classroom affect your earnings? : evidence from project star

Chetty, Raj; Friedman, John N; Hilger, Nathaniel; Saez, … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 126 (2011) 4, pp. 1593-1660

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Trade adjustment : workers-level evidence

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - In: The quarterly journal of economics 129 (2014) 4, pp. 1799-1860

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