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Title: |
Employment and Income Effects of Multinational
Production by U.S. Computer Firms |
| Author: |
Dollar, David |
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UCLA |
| Source: |
International Economic Journal, Winter 1989, v. 3, no. 4, pp. 1-17 |
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Publication Date: |
Winter 1989 |
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Abstract: |
This paper considers the hypothesis that
the expansion of multinational corporations has led to decreasing
relative demand for production workers in the U.S. and increasing demand
for white-collar employees, especially engineers and managers. The
development of the multinational corporation affects factor demand by
allowing for the direct export of services created by professional-
technical labor. It is shown that between 1967 and 1984 real wages of
semi-skilled production workers in the U.S. computing equipment industry
fell substantially, both absolutely and relative to earnings of
white-collar occupations. At the same time, employment of production
workers relative to other types of labor also declined significantly. |
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