Popular posts this week
- The Supreme Court’s ‘fair share’ case is an existential threat to public sector unions. But it may force them to engage and embrace choice.
- The future of EU international investment policy – What clues to take from NAFTA 2.0?
- US and Chinese tech firms increasingly play a game of Pac-Man
- Trump is right to critique the Federal Reserve, but his attacks are in the wrong direction.
The impact of immigration and offshoring on American jobs is far more complicated than directly replacing workers
The impact of immigration and offshoring on American jobs is far more complicated than directly replacing workers
The standard narrative on immigration and offshoring is that these practices uniformly harm American workers by providing cheap, alternative sources of labor. Using data taken from U.S. manufacturing industries between 2000 and 2007, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri, and Greg Wright examine the impact of offshoring and immigration on native manufacturing workers. They find that, while offshoring production or hiring immigrants […]