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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …

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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015

in middle wage jobs relative to both high and low wage jobs. Our theory explains recent and historical instances of job …

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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015

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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a taskassignment model … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …

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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages ; conference paper

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2014 - This version: December 2, 2013

Job polarization the rise in employment shares of high and low skill jobs at the expense of middle skill jobs occurred in the US not just recently, but also in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We argue that in each case polarization resulted from increased automation, and...

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