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International trade and polarization in the labor market
Das, Satya P. - 2011
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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International trade and polarization in the labor market
Das, Satya P. - 2012
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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Understanding the decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Houseman, Susan N. - 2018 - Revised June 2018
U.S. manufacturing experienced a precipitous and historically unprecedented decline in employment in the 2000s. Many economists and other analysts - pointing to decades of statistics showing that manufacturing real (inflation-adjusted) output growth has largely kept pace with private sector real...
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Untangling trade and technology : evidence from local labor markets
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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Outsourcing economics : global value chains in capitalist development
Milberg, William S.; Winkler, Deborah - 2013
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Are routine jobs moving south? : evidence from changes in the occupational structure of employment in the USA and Mexico
Cortes, Guido Matias; Morris, Diego M. - 2020
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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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms : Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies
Kovak, Brian - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944101
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Assessing the Impact of IT-Enabled Services Offshoring on U.S. Employment and Earnings
Blair, Andrew - 2020
offshoring” process on U.S. domestic employment and earnings in relevant services sectors. It draws upon relatively new … offshoring process sparked intense professional discussion. The study documents that U.S. trade in IT-enabled services is … computer services, an indication of substantial offshoring in that area; moreover, the significant two-way trade pattern in the …
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The China shock and the rise of robots : why Germany is different
Südekum, Jens - In: Explaining Germany's exceptional recovery, (pp. 47-53). 2018
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