GREG C. WRIGHT


​Fellow at Brookings, leading the Workforce of the Future initiative
Associate Professor of Economics, UC Merced  

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 ​gwright at brookings.edu
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The Workforce of the Future initiative produces analysis and data-driven tools to help steer local economic development policy toward strategies that increase the quality of jobs and promote career pathways out of low-wage work.

Working Papers

A Rising Tide? The Local Incidence of the Second Wave of Globalization (with Rowena Gray)
  PDF   revise and resubmit at the Journal of International Economics


Publications

The Human Capital Legacy of a Trade Embargo (with Matthias Parey & Abhishek Chakravarty)
  
PDF  Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2021

The Usual Suspects: Do Risk Preference, Altruism, and Health Predict the Response to COVID-19? (with Ketki Sheth)
  PDF  Review of Economics of the Household -- Special Issue on COVID-19, October 2020, Vol. 18 No. 4

Increasing Returns to Scale Within Limits: A Model of ICT (with Tianxi Wang)
  PDF  Journal of Economic Theory, September 2020, Vol. 189
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Processing Immigration Shocks: Firm Responses on the Innovation Margin (with Rowena Gray and Giulia Montresor)
  PDF  Journal of International Economics, September 2020, Vol. 126

From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization (with Holger Breinlich & Anson Soderbery)
  PDF   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018, Vol. 10 No. 4
  Web Appendix

Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms (with Giovanni Peri & Gianmarco Ottaviano)
  
PDF   Journal of International Economics, May 2018, Vol. 112
  VoxEU Summary      LSE Policy Blog

A Short-Run View of What Computers Do: Evidence from a U.K. Tax Incentive (with Paul Gaggl)
  PDF   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics​, July 2017, Vol. 9 No. 3
  Web Appendix    VoxEU Summary

Revisiting the Employment Impact of Offshoring 
  PDF   European Economic Review, February 2014, Vol. 66 ​

Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs (with Giovanni Peri and Gianmarco Ottaviano)    
  PDF   American Economic Review, August 2013, Vol. 103 No. 5
  Web Appendix      NY Times Coverage     VoxEU Summary


Other Work

International Trade and Labor Markets forthcoming in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics

​Is Publicly-Available Firm-Level Data Reliable? Evidence from the UK (with Holger Breinlich & Patrick Nolen)
  PDF  PLOS One, November 2020


​Information and Exporting - An Experimental Approach (with Holger Breinlich, Dave Donaldson & Patrick Nolen)
  PDF


The Dynamics and Differentiation of Latin American Agricultural Exports (with Ben Mandel), 2012  PDF

Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (with Feenstra and Lipsey, et al.)
     NBER Working Paper No. 16254, August 2010     PDF
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