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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010

positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …How many 'American jobs' have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation …

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Climate change meets trade in promoting green growth: potential conflicts and synergies

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010

To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap-and-trade regime are the most concrete unilateral trade measure put forward to level the carbon playing field. If improperly implemented, such measures could disturb the world...

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The White House and the Kyoto Protocol: Double Standards on Uncertainties and Their Consequences

Tulkens, Philippe; Tulkens, Henry - 2006

This paper compares the level of uncertainty widely reported in climate change scientific publications with the level of uncertainty of the costs estimates of implementing the Kyoto Protocol in the United States. It argues that these two categories of uncertainties were used and ignored,...

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The SO2 allowance trading system: The ironic history of a grand policy experiment

Schmalensee, Richard; Stavins, Robert N. - 2012

Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That system performed well but created four striking ironies. First, by creating this system to reduce SO2 emissions to curb acid...

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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity

Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Torgler, Benno - 2012

) for both male and female graduates. On the other hand, unfavourable employment conditions at the time of entry into …

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...

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Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: Does Latency Matter?

Alberini, Anna; Cropper, Maureen; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2004

Using results from two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Canada and the U.S., we explore the effect of a latency period on willingness to pay (WTP) for reduced mortality risk using both structural and reduced form approaches. We find that delaying the time at which the risk reduction...

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Resource-Abundance and Economic Growth in the U.S.

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004

It is a common assumption that regions within the same country converge to approximately the same steady-state income levels. The so-called absolute convergence hypothesis focuses on initial income levels to account for the variability in income growth among regions. Empirical data seem to...

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Cities and Cultures

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We investigate the existence of wage premium due to cultural diversity across US cities. Using census data from 1970 to 1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for white US-born males. We measure cultural diversity in...

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A Meta-Analysis of the Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Pesticide Risk Exposure

Travisi, Chiara M.; Nijkamp, Peter; Florax, Raymond J. G. M. - 2004

The use of environmental policy instruments such as eco-labelling and pesticide taxes should preferably be based on disaggregate estimates of the individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for pesticide risk reductions. We review the empirical valuation literature dealing with pesticide risk exposure...

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