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Migration and offshoring are controversial issues in policy terms: both are seen as threats to domestic employment. Many policy-makers think that placing restrictions on inflows of migrants and on the relocation of production abroad is an effective way of increasing or maintaining domestic employment.
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Navaretti, G.B., De Simone, G., Orefice, G., Salvi, A. (2011). Migration and Productivity Patterns in European Regions. In: FitzGerald, V., Heyer, J., Thorp, R. (eds) Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306721_4
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