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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 … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …
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We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … incomplete contracts. In so doing, we model offshoring as the geographical fragmentation of a firm's production chain between a … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of …
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The standard two-country model of international trade with monopolistic competition predicts a more-than-proportional relationship between a country's share of world production of a good and its share of world demand for that same good, a result known as the "home market effect". We first show...
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We discuss how standard computable equilibrium models of trade policy can be enriched with selection effects without missing other important channels of adjustment. This is achieved by estimating and simulating a partial equilibrium model that accounts for a number of real world effects of trade...
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