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make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification - globalization …
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Many industrialized economies have seen a rapid rise in top income inequality and in the globalization of production … since the 1980s. In this paper I propose an open economy model of executive pay to study how offshoring affects the pay … model predictions empirically. Overall, I find that between 2000 and 2014 offshoring has increased executive pay levels …
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In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue … correspond to an increase in outsourcing by multinationals from the United States and other Northern countries, is to shift … the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the share of skilled labor in total wages in Mexico using state …
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have on their wages, the available evidence on the link between offshoring, immigration, and wages remains mixed. This … paper presents a simple model that examines the impact of offshoring and immigration on wages and tests these predictions … offshoring and immigration on wages differs depending on the income level of the foreign country, which may explain the mixed …
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We revisit Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg's (2008) famous result, that under certain conditions offshoring of low … Rybczynski-type reallocation of factors to absorb offshoring-induced job displacement is ruled out. We allow for simultaneous … offshoring of both skilled and unskilled labor, and we derive new results on the role of factor-bias in offshoring, identifying …
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, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the location of the worker accounts for over a third of the variance in wages …. We also document that remote wages in local currency move almost one-for-one with the dollar exchange rate of the worker …'s country, and are highly sensitive to changes in the wages of foreign competitors. Finally, we provide a new measure on which …
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into offshoring. Given a shock that lowers offshoring costs, the theory predicts that domestic wages rise at firms that …Offshoring of US jobs is controversial. Critics fear that offshoring will lead to lost jobs and lower domestic wages at … offshore relative to domestic wages at firms that do not. The theory also predicts that domestic employment could rise or fall …
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This paper examines the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections …' monopsony power. Offshoring benefits Belgian and Dutch employers in that imports of final as well as intermediate goods are … Belgium, we also find that offshoring is negatively related to the intensity of wage markups measured by workers' bargaining …
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