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Foreign direct investment and relative wages: Evidence from Mexico's maquiladoras

Robert C. Feenstra, +1 more
- 01 May 1997 - 
- Vol. 42, Iss: 42, pp 371-393
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In this paper, the authors examined the increase in relative wages for skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s and found that growth in FDI was positively correlated with the relative demand for skilled labor.
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This article is published in Journal of International Economics.The article was published on 1997-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1291 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wage share & Foreign direct investment.

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The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade

David Hummels, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2001 - 
TL;DR: This paper found that vertical specialization accounts for 21% of these countries' exports, and grew almost 30% between 1970 and 1990, and also found that growth in vertical specialization accounted for 30% of the growth in these countries’ exports.
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Advanced International Trade : Theory and Evidence Ed. 2

Robert C. Feenstra
TL;DR: The Advanced International Trade (AIT) as discussed by the authors is a classic graduate textbook in international trade that has been used widely by students and practitioners of economics for a long time to come.
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The Impact of Outsourcing and High-Technology Capital on Wages: Estimates For the United States, 1979–1990

Robert C. Feenstra, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1999 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative influence of trade versus technology on wages in a "large country" setting, where technological change affects product prices is estimated, where trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technological change is defined as expenditures on high-technology capital such as computers.
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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Investment?

Holger Görg, +2 more
- 01 Aug 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation of the empirical evidence on productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies is presented. But, although theory can identify a range of possible spillover channels, robust empirical support for positive spillovers is hard to find.
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Much ado about nothing? do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?

Holger Görg, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the empirical evidence on productivity, wage, and export spillovers in developing, developed, and transition economies and conclude that robust empirical support for positive spillovers is at best mixed.
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Changes in Relative Wages, 1963–1987: Supply and Demand Factors

Lawrence F. Katz, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1992 - 
TL;DR: A simple supply and demand framework is used to analyze changes in the U.S. wage structure from 1963 to 1987 as discussed by the authors, showing that rapid secular growth in the demand for more-educated workers, "more-skilled" workers, and females appears to be the driving force behind observed changes in wage structure.
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Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill

Chinhui Juhn, +2 more
- 01 Jun 1993 - 
TL;DR: This paper found that the trend toward increased wage inequality is apparent within narrowly defined education and labor market experience groups, and that much of the increase in wage inequality for males over the last 20 years is due to increased returns to the components of skill other than years of schooling and years of labor market experiences.
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Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U. S. Manufacturing: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufactures

Eli Berman, +2 more
- 01 May 1994 - 
TL;DR: This paper investigated the shift in demand away from unskilled and toward skilled labor in U.S. manufacturing over the 1980s and concluded that increased use of nonproduction workers is strongly correlated with investment in computers and in R&D.
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Changes in the structure of wages in the 1980's: an evaluation of alternative explanations.

John Bound, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1992 - 
TL;DR: This paper assess the power of several alternative explanations of the observed relative wage changes in the context of a theoretical framework that nests all of these explanations and conclude that their major cause was a shift in the skill structure of labor demand brought about by biased technological change.
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Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages

Robert C. Feenstra, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1995 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the 1980's and argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production activities.
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