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 … model to jointly analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of offshoring and of the costs of immigrating to the U …

Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced …-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress. Offshoring induces skill … relevant case, starting from low levels, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition with falling real wages …

passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …

market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied …

accumulated insights from the literature on the economic impact of immigration. A crucial lesson from that literature is that any …

native-born workers specialize in performing complementary tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task … cleaning, cooking, and building. Immigration causes natives -- who have a better understanding of local networks, rules …. Simulations show that this increased specialization mitigated negative wage consequences of immigration for less-educated native …

Skilled immigration restrictions may have secondary consequences that have been largely overlooked in the immigration … debate: multinational firms faced with visa constraints have an offshoring option, namely, hiring the labor they need at … desired effects of increasing employment of natives, but rather have the effect of offshoring jobs. Combining visa data and …

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants …

imports in the U.S. economy to these trends. Our empirical evidence indicates that both trade and immigration augmented the … immigration increased the effective supply of high school dropouts by 28 percent for men and 31 percent for women. We estimate … school dropouts between 1980 and 1988 can be attributed to the trade and immigration flows. In addition, our analysis …