middle-skill workers have remained subdued. We attribute this outcome to the rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration … depressed due to the rise in low-skilled immigration. Native workers react to immigration by investing in training. Offshoring … well as their implications for U.S. welfare. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects middle …

This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration … occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … industries) and managers/professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs …

A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …

A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …

federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration … competition induced by low-skill immigration. The results are robust to instrumenting immigration and state effective minimum …

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …

impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … our analysis of the local effects of immigration, and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …