The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market

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Abowd, John M

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Abstract: During the 1970s and 1980s immigration, trade, and foreign investment. Abstract: became increasingly important in the U.S. labor market. The number of legal. Abstract: and illegal immigra...

Abstract: During the 1970s and 1980s immigration, trade, and foreign investment.

Abstract: became increasingly important in the U.S. labor market. The number of legal.

Abstract: and illegal immigrants to the country increased, altering the size and.

Abstract: composition of the work force and substantially raising the immigrant share of.

Abstract: labor in gateway cities. The national origins of immigrants changed from.

Abstract: primarily European to Mexican, Latin American, and Asian. Foreign trade rose.

Abstract: relative to gross national product, and a massive trade deficit developed in.

Abstract: the 1980s. Foreign investment in the U.S. grew rapidly, with foreign direct.

Abstract: investment increasing until three percent of American workers were employed in.

Abstract: foreign-owned firms. Whereas once labor market analysts could look upon the.

Abstract: U.S. as a largely closed economy, the changes of the 1970s and 1980s brought.

Abstract: about the internationalization of the U.S. labor market. In this paper we.

Abstract: show that the first order effects of immigration on the labor market arise.

Abstract: primarily from the geographic variation in immigrant shares of the local labor.

Abstract: force. The first order effects of goods flows on the labor market arise from.

Abstract: industrial variation in the openness of the product market. Direct foreign.

Abstract: investments, though significant, do not give rise to businesses substantially.

Abstract: different from existing American-owned businesses. The paper also summarizes.

Abstract: the findings of the NBER research volume Immigration, Trade, and Labor.

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