Offshoring, immigration, and the native wage distribution

Olney, William W.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01717.x

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“…They find that offshoring decreases demand for native and immigrant workers. Olney () develops a partial equilibrium model to compare the impact of offshoring and immigration on wages of native U.S. workers, and finds that offshoring has a more positive impact on low‐skilled wages than immigration. He assumes that immigrants are identical to natives in performing tasks, and the supply of skilled and unskilled workers is exogenously fixed.…”

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A model of occupational choice, offshoring and immigration

Unel

2018

Rev International Economics

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This paper develops a two‐country model of offshoring and immigration with occupational choice and endogenous firm productivity. Individuals in Home choose to become entrepreneurs or workers, whereas those in Foreign can only be employed as workers. Entrepreneurs produce output using a fixed set of tasks that can be performed locally or abroad. The model predicts that pro‐immigration policies increase the number of entrepreneurs, raise productivity, and improve the aggregate welfare. It also predicts that lowering offshoring costs generates job polarization and welfare polarization, but improves the aggregate welfare.

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A model of occupational choice, offshoring and immigration

Unel

2018

Rev International Economics

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“…O¤shoring, to date, largely occurs in manufacturing industries (Blinder 2005, Amiti and Wei 2009, Olney 2009, and workers in these industries tend to be less skilled (US Census Bureau 2000). petition with foreign workers by acquiring the training and knowledge that move them up the skill distribution.…”

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Globalization and Investment in Human Capital

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2011

ILR Review

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Workers are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact that globalization has on their domestic labor market. While existing research typically focuses on the e¤ects on labor market outcomes such as wages and employment, we examine whether American workers respond to globalization by increasing their investment in human capital. Speci…cally, we measure the extent to which o¤shoring and immigration a¤ect enrollment at institutions of higher education. The results indicate that both o¤shoring and immigration increase enrollment at community colleges, particularly among older students. We conclude that workers in the U.S. are responding to o¤shoring and immigration by acquiring the skills necessary to compete in a global economy.Keywords: globalization, higher education, enrollment, o¤shoring, immigration JEL Codes: F16, I2, J24

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“…(), Autor et al. (, ), Bastos and Straume (), Costinot and Vogel (), Olney (), Ottaviavo et al. () and Warman and Worswick ().…”

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Changing income inequality: A distributional paradigm for Canada

Beach

2016

Canadian J of Economics

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This paper examines the major changes in income inequality in Canada since the 1970s and collects them as a distributional paradigm for Canada. It focuses on labour market changes in terms of shares of workers and earnings shares for lower earners, middle‐class workers and higher earners in a flexible general framework. Polarization of full‐time workers, loss of middle‐class earnings share and increase in a higher earnings gap are highlighted. Changing returns to human capital, role of demographics and cohort effects and declining labour share are examined. The paper also reviews evidence of changing economic mobility and estimating the role of inequality of opportunity.

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Offshoring, immigration, and the native wage distribution

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

A model of occupational choice, offshoring and immigration

A model of occupational choice, offshoring and immigration

Globalization and Investment in Human Capital

Changing income inequality: A distributional paradigm for Canada

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