We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

We use new sources of micro-data to estimate the short-run impact that H-1B employment has had on IT wages. Our primary … data source describes employers, demographics, and wages for a segment of the US IT workforce. We integrate these data with …

industrialization of goods production. We focus on the effect of industrialization on employment and wages, and identify certain …

, international competition, and factor supplies. Our empirical model estimates the general equilibrium relationship between wages and … technology, prices, and factor supplies. The model is based on the neoclassical theory of production, and is implemented by …

, international competition, and factor supplies. Our empirical model estimates the general equilibrium relationship between wages and … technology, prices, and factor supplies. The model is based on the neoclassical theory of production, and is implemented by …

This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated … inequality among these groups but it could have contributed to the decline in wages for the least educated. Instead, support is …