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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...
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In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input …
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workforce. The effects off-shoring on wages and job composition are also studied. That of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not … ; hollowing out ; skill biased technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …
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shares of high-skill as well as low-skill workers in the total workforce. The effects of off-shoring on wages and job … composition are also studied. Off-shoring of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not middle-skill tasks, is shown to contribute … technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …
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We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …
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and wages, in the remaining domestic activities of the offshoring firm. Consistent with these models, we find that … program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts … domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. A class of models predicts that more productive firms …
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Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …
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We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …
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We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance … program petition data to confidential data on U.S. firm operations. We exploit these data to assess how offshoring affects … domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. Consistent with heterogenous firm models where …
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