The effects of offshoring on the elasticity of labor demand
In: Journal of international economics, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 89-98
ISSN: 0022-1996
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In: Journal of international economics, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 89-98
ISSN: 0022-1996
In: IZA world of labor: evidence-based policy making
We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business activity. Since local governments are disproportionately funded through property and sales taxation, declining property values and a decrease in economic activity translate into less revenue, which constrains the ability of local governments to provide public services. State and federal governments have limited ability to smooth local shocks, and the impact on the provision of public services is compounded when local income shocks are highly correlated with shocks in the rest of the state. The outcome is greater inequality not only in incomes but also in the quality of public services and amenities across US jurisdictions.
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In: Journal of international economics, Band 98, S. 160-175
ISSN: 0022-1996
In: NBER Working Paper No. w14992
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10231
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In: The Canadian journal of economics: the journal of the Canadian Economics Association = Revue canadienne d'économique, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 111-146
ISSN: 1540-5982
AbstractUsing detailed micro‐level data from 1977 to 1994, we analyze the impact of employment protection measures adopted across US states on the number and the value of new inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) transactions completed by foreign‐owned companies. Our findings point to a robust negative association between the implementation of employment protection laws and both the extensive and the intensive margins of FDI in the US. When states adopt regulations that increase employers' firing costs, FDI transactions by foreign multinational companies become less frequent and decrease in value, with stronger negative impacts in more labour‐intensive industries. There is also some evidence of diversion and spillover effects from the adoption of these measures by neighbouring states.
In: FEDS Working Paper No. 2013-44
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In: Journal of international economics, Band 93, Heft 2, S. 239-252
ISSN: 0022-1996
In: American economic review, Band 102, Heft 3, S. 417-423
ISSN: 1944-7981
Using a matched employer-employee data set, we study the effects of trade liberalization on wage dispersion in Brazil across heterogeneous worker groups, keeping in mind that the assignment of workers to firms may be non-random and determined by the time-invariant productivity of workers specific to the firms with which they are matched. We find differential effects of trade reform on residual wage inequality across worker groups. High education workers experience greater increases in wage dispersion relative to low education workers following trade liberalization. This finding is broadly consistent with the theoretical predictions that emerge from models with heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers, and labor market frictions.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w17256
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16897
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