These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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John McLaren (University of Virginia)

Saturday, January 5, 10:15 AM

Saturday, January 5, 10:15 AM
Session: Offshoring and the Labor Market (AEA)
Presiding: Pol Antras (Harvard University)

Trade, Outsourcing, and the Invisible Handshake
Bilgehan Karabay (Central Bank of Turkey)
John McLaren (University of Virginia)
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Outsourcing Peter to Pay Paul: High Skill Expectations and Low-Skill Wages with Imperfect Labor Markets
Carl Davidson (Michigan State University)
Steven Matusz (Michigan State University)
Andrei Shevchenko (Michigan State University)
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Offshoring in a Ricardian World
Andres Rodriguez-Clare (Pennsylvania State University)

Offshoring and Unemployment
Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University)
Priya Ranjan (University of California, Irvine)
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