Popular posts this week
- Donald Trump is expanding a system of immigration enforcement which already punishes immigrants and makes them vulnerable.
- Streetcars and light rail services serve different rider markets in American cities.
- Book Review: The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-Truth Politics by Philip Seargeant
- When it comes to controlling taxes in the long term, supermajority rules in state legislatures are more symbolic than effective
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 […]