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The Asymmetric Impact of Offshoring and Low-skill Immigration on Employment and Wages

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The Asymmetric Impact of Offshoring and Low-skill Immigration on Employment and Wages

DATE: July 1, 2013

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ABSTRACT: Over the past three decades, the United States experienced strong employment growth for high- and low-skilled workers while middle-skill jobs disappeared. At the same time, wages improved only for high-skill occupations. A new issue looks at the role offshoring and low-skill immigration may have played in that phenomenon.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. "The Asymmetric Impact of Offshoring and Low-skill Immigration on Employment and Wages" in Human Capital Currents (July 1, 2013). https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/7199/item/656483, accessed on December 31, 2024.

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