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-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low … immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …
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In the early 1970s, Malaysia began to be inundated by foreign workers, all of whom were irregular migrants. A decade later their uncontrolled entry left several negative consequences especially to the internal and border security of the country. To overcome the problems, Malaysia introduced the...
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In the early 1970s, Malaysia began to be inundated by foreign workers, all of whom were irregular migrants. A decade later their uncontrolled entry left several negative consequences especially to the internal and border security of the country. To overcome the problems, Malaysia introduced the...
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In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that, contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due to …
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In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that, contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due to …
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In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that, contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due to …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
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