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来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series |
规范类型 | 论文 |
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs | |
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano; Giovanni Peri; Greg C. Wright | |
发表日期 | 2010 |
出处 | Economy and Society |
出版年 | 2010 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector version of the Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) model with a continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U.S. The model predicts that while cheaper offshoring reduces the share of natives among less skilled workers, cheaper immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from those that are manual and routine intensive. We test the predictions of the model on data for 58 U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 2000-2007 and find evidence in favor of a positive productivity effect such that immigration has a positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. *** Suggested citation: Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P., Giovanni Peri, and Greg C. Wright. 2013. "Immigration, Offshoring, and American Jobs." American Economic Review, 103(5): 1925-59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.5.1925 |
特色分类 | F22;F23;J24;J61 |
关键词 | Employment Production tasks Immigrants Offshoring |
URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/immigration-offshoring-and-american-jobs/ |
来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/117768 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano,Giovanni Peri,Greg C. Wright. Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs. 2010. |
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