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skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through …We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …
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that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from …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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skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through …We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107297
covariations of prices and the supply of skills are consistent with a pure labor supply explanation. Methodologically, the paper … shows that the use of a stock measure of efficient units of skills is better than flow measures (e.g. cohort size). It also …
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covariations of prices and the supply of skills are consistent with a pure labor supply explanation. Methodologically, the paper … shows that the use of a stock measure of efficient units of skills is better than flow measures (e.g. cohort size). It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401268
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that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747717
offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis … provides a unique and new approach to address the question of whether trade and offshoring have impacted the occupational …
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employment growth has been monotonically skill-biased in terms of these general-purpose intellectual skills, despite a … general intellectual skills. Conversely, growing low-wage occupations are more (intellectually) skill-intensive than other low … social maturity. Existing occupational projections imply that the relationship between employment growth and skills in the …
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greater English language skills, whether measured by the level of these skills or the importance of English for performing the … is reduced by 50 percent, but is still large, when worker characteristics, including their own English language skills … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills …
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