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Book/Printed Material Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

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Title

  • Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Summary

  • "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

  • Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.
  • Peri, Giovanni
  • Wright, Greg, 1970-
  • National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2010.

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  • -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 12/30/2010.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Also available in print.
  • -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  • -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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  • HB1

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  • 2010656285

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Chicago citation style:

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P, Giovanni Peri, Greg Wright, and National Bureau Of Economic Research. Immigration, offshoring and American jobs. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010656285/.

APA citation style:

Ottaviano, G. I. P., Peri, G., Wright, G. & National Bureau Of Economic Research. (2010) Immigration, offshoring and American jobs. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2010656285/.

MLA citation style:

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P, et al. Immigration, offshoring and American jobs. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2010656285/>.