Ann Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1873-2432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 236 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Globalization, Firms, and Workers
How has globalization through trade and foreign investment affected labour markets, wages, profits, and inequality? This fundamentally important question is addressed deeply in this volume, with methods ranging from microeconomic theory to econometric studies using detailed firm-level and household data. The primary objective of the volume, a compendium of important research performed by Ann Harrison and co-authors, is to study and understand whe…
Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism
During the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists campaigned to improve conditions for workers in developing countries. This paper analyzes the impact of anti-sweatshop campaigns in Indonesia on wages and employment. Identification is based on comparing the wage growth of workers in foreign-owned and exporting firms in targeted regions or sectors before and after the initiation of anti-sweatshop campaigns. We find the campaigns led to large real wage in…
Industrial Policy in China
The authors explore the impact of a 2004 tax reform in China that reduced the value-added tax (VAT) on investment goods. Although the goal of the reform was to encourage upgrading of technology, results suggest there was no significant increase in fixed investment, new product introductions, or productivity. Rather, the authors find that firms shifted the composition of investment toward machinery and increased the capital intensity of production…
The Factory-Free Economy
Industrial Policy and Competition
Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies tax holidays, loans, and tariffs. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a se…
Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers using the Current Population Surveys
We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys from 1984 to 2002. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with significant wage effects, while industry exposure has no significant impact. We present evidence that globalization has put downward pressure on worker wages through the reallocation of workers away from higher-wage manufacturing jobs int…
FDI Spillovers and Industrial Policy
Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Using firm-level data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, we estimate the impact on U.S. manufacturing employment of changes in foreign affiliate wages. We show that the motive for offshoring and, consequently, the location of offshore activity, significantly affects the impact of offshoring on parent employment. In general, offshoring to low-wage countries substitutes for domestic employment. However, for firms that do significant…
Industrial Policy and Competition
Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism
During the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists campaigned to improve conditions for workers in developing countries. This paper analyzes the impact of anti-sweatshop campaigns in Indonesia on wages and employment. Identification is based on comparing the wage growth of workers in foreign-owned and exporting firms in targeted regions or sectors before and after the initiation of anti-sweatshop campaigns. We find the campaigns led to large real wage in…
Globalization and Poverty
On the links between globalization and poverty
Ownership Versus Environment
An unanswered question in the debate on public-sector inefficiency is whether reforms other than government divestiture can effectively substitute for privatization. Using a 1981–1995 panel data set of all public and private manufacturing establishments in Indonesia, we analyze whether public-sector inefficiency is primarily due to agency-type problems or to the environment in which public-sector enterprises (PSEs) operate, as measured by the sof…
Global capital flows and financing constraints
Moving to greener pastures? Multinationals and the pollution haven hypothesis
Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Direct Foreign Investment? Evidence from Venezuela
Governments often promote inward foreign investment to encourage technology “spillovers” from foreign to domestic firms. Using panel data on Venezuelan plants, we find that foreign equity participation is positively correlated with plant productivity (the “own-plant” effect), but this relationship is only robust for small enterprises. We then test for spillovers from joint ventures to plants with no foreign investment. Foreign investment negative…
Who Gains from Trade Reform? Some Remaining Puzzles
This paper focuses on three unresolved issues with regard to the impact of trade reform. First, many studies linking trade reform to long run growth are surprisingly fragile. To illustrate the problems with this literature, we examine a popular measure of openness recently introduced by Sachs and Warner [Sachs, J., Warner, A., 1995. Economic reform and the process of global integration. Brookings Papers on Economics Activity 1, pp. 1–117]. We sho…
Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in Mexico
During the 1980s in Mexico the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers widened. The authors assess the extent to which this increased wage inequality was associated with Mexico's sweeping trade reform in 1985. Examining data on 2,354 Mexican manufacturing plants for 1984-90 and Mexican Industrial Census data for 1965-88, they find that the reduction in tariff protection in 1985 disproportionately affected low-skilled industries. Goods from…
Spillovers, foreign investment, and export behavior
Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms that penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning effects or establishing commercial linkages. We examine whether spillovers associated with one firm's export activity reduce the cost of exporting for other firms. We identify two sources of spillovers: export production in general and the specific activities of multinationals. From a simple m…
Wages and foreign ownership A comparative study of Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States
Openness and growth
This paper draws together a variety of openness measures to test the association between openness and growth. Although the correlation across different types of openness is not always strong, there is generally a positive association between growth and different measures of openness. The strength of the association depends on whether the specification uses cross-section or panel data (which combines cross-section and time series). For industriali…
Using Knowledge Decrement to Compare Medical Students’ Long-term Retention of Self-study Reading and Lecture Materials
The purpose of the current study was to contrast the long-term retention of material acquired primarily through lectures and assigned self-study readings. Sixteen third-year female medical students took part in the study, and the material tested was from a six week Behavioural Sciences Module which incorporated social science, medical science and clinical information. A specially constructed examination paper was used to measure retention one yea…
Are there positive spillovers from direct foreign investment
Comparing nurses' and patients' pain evaluations
Are there positive spillovers from direct foreign investment
Moving to greener pastures? Multinationals and the pollution haven hypothesis
Openness and growth
This paper draws together a variety of openness measures to test the association between openness and growth. Although the correlation across different types of openness is not always strong, there is generally a positive association between growth and different measures of openness. The strength of the association depends on whether the specification uses cross-section or panel data (which combines cross-section and time series). For industriali…
Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in Mexico
During the 1980s in Mexico the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers widened. The authors assess the extent to which this increased wage inequality was associated with Mexico's sweeping trade reform in 1985. Examining data on 2,354 Mexican manufacturing plants for 1984-90 and Mexican Industrial Census data for 1965-88, they find that the reduction in tariff protection in 1985 disproportionately affected low-skilled industries. Goods from…
Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
Global capital flows and financing constraints
Who Gains from Trade Reform? Some Remaining Puzzles
This paper focuses on three unresolved issues with regard to the impact of trade reform. First, many studies linking trade reform to long run growth are surprisingly fragile. To illustrate the problems with this literature, we examine a popular measure of openness recently introduced by Sachs and Warner [Sachs, J., Warner, A., 1995. Economic reform and the process of global integration. Brookings Papers on Economics Activity 1, pp. 1–117]. We sho…
FDI Spillovers and Industrial Policy
On the links between globalization and poverty
Industrial Policy in China
The authors explore the impact of a 2004 tax reform in China that reduced the value-added tax (VAT) on investment goods. Although the goal of the reform was to encourage upgrading of technology, results suggest there was no significant increase in fixed investment, new product introductions, or productivity. Rather, the authors find that firms shifted the composition of investment toward machinery and increased the capital intensity of production…
Handicapped individuals in Kuwait
Handicapped individuals in Kuwait
Are there positive spillovers from direct foreign investment
Comparing nurses' and patients' pain evaluations
Using Knowledge Decrement to Compare Medical Students’ Long-term Retention of Self-study Reading and Lecture Materials
The purpose of the current study was to contrast the long-term retention of material acquired primarily through lectures and assigned self-study readings. Sixteen third-year female medical students took part in the study, and the material tested was from a six week Behavioural Sciences Module which incorporated social science, medical science and clinical information. A specially constructed examination paper was used to measure retention one yea…
Wages and foreign ownership A comparative study of Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States
Openness and growth
This paper draws together a variety of openness measures to test the association between openness and growth. Although the correlation across different types of openness is not always strong, there is generally a positive association between growth and different measures of openness. The strength of the association depends on whether the specification uses cross-section or panel data (which combines cross-section and time series). For industriali…
Spillovers, foreign investment, and export behavior
Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms that penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning effects or establishing commercial linkages. We examine whether spillovers associated with one firm's export activity reduce the cost of exporting for other firms. We identify two sources of spillovers: export production in general and the specific activities of multinationals. From a simple m…
Do Domestic Firms Benefit from Direct Foreign Investment? Evidence from Venezuela
Governments often promote inward foreign investment to encourage technology “spillovers” from foreign to domestic firms. Using panel data on Venezuelan plants, we find that foreign equity participation is positively correlated with plant productivity (the “own-plant” effect), but this relationship is only robust for small enterprises. We then test for spillovers from joint ventures to plants with no foreign investment. Foreign investment negative…
Who Gains from Trade Reform? Some Remaining Puzzles
This paper focuses on three unresolved issues with regard to the impact of trade reform. First, many studies linking trade reform to long run growth are surprisingly fragile. To illustrate the problems with this literature, we examine a popular measure of openness recently introduced by Sachs and Warner [Sachs, J., Warner, A., 1995. Economic reform and the process of global integration. Brookings Papers on Economics Activity 1, pp. 1–117]. We sho…
Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in Mexico
During the 1980s in Mexico the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers widened. The authors assess the extent to which this increased wage inequality was associated with Mexico's sweeping trade reform in 1985. Examining data on 2,354 Mexican manufacturing plants for 1984-90 and Mexican Industrial Census data for 1965-88, they find that the reduction in tariff protection in 1985 disproportionately affected low-skilled industries. Goods from…
Moving to greener pastures? Multinationals and the pollution haven hypothesis
Global capital flows and financing constraints
Ownership Versus Environment
An unanswered question in the debate on public-sector inefficiency is whether reforms other than government divestiture can effectively substitute for privatization. Using a 1981–1995 panel data set of all public and private manufacturing establishments in Indonesia, we analyze whether public-sector inefficiency is primarily due to agency-type problems or to the environment in which public-sector enterprises (PSEs) operate, as measured by the sof…
On the links between globalization and poverty
Globalization and Poverty
Multinationals and Anti-Sweatshop Activism
During the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists campaigned to improve conditions for workers in developing countries. This paper analyzes the impact of anti-sweatshop campaigns in Indonesia on wages and employment. Identification is based on comparing the wage growth of workers in foreign-owned and exporting firms in targeted regions or sectors before and after the initiation of anti-sweatshop campaigns. We find the campaigns led to large real wage in…
Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Using firm-level data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, we estimate the impact on U.S. manufacturing employment of changes in foreign affiliate wages. We show that the motive for offshoring and, consequently, the location of offshore activity, significantly affects the impact of offshoring on parent employment. In general, offshoring to low-wage countries substitutes for domestic employment. However, for firms that do significant…
Industrial Policy and Competition
Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers using the Current Population Surveys
We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys from 1984 to 2002. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with significant wage effects, while industry exposure has no significant impact. We present evidence that globalization has put downward pressure on worker wages through the reallocation of workers away from higher-wage manufacturing jobs int…
FDI Spillovers and Industrial Policy
Industrial Policy and Competition
Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies tax holidays, loans, and tariffs. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a se…
The Factory-Free Economy
Industrial Policy in China
The authors explore the impact of a 2004 tax reform in China that reduced the value-added tax (VAT) on investment goods. Although the goal of the reform was to encourage upgrading of technology, results suggest there was no significant increase in fixed investment, new product introductions, or productivity. Rather, the authors find that firms shifted the composition of investment toward machinery and increased the capital intensity of production…
Globalization, Firms, and Workers
How has globalization through trade and foreign investment affected labour markets, wages, profits, and inequality? This fundamentally important question is addressed deeply in this volume, with methods ranging from microeconomic theory to econometric studies using detailed firm-level and household data. The primary objective of the volume, a compendium of important research performed by Ann Harrison and co-authors, is to study and understand whe…
Economics (22 works) · Business (16 works) · Global trade and economics (15 works) · International economics (11 works) · Macroeconomics (11 works) · Market economy (11 works) · International trade (10 works) · Foreign direct investment (9 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · International Business and FDI (7 works)