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The chapters in this dissertation deal broadly with issues related to outsourcing and financial crises. All three chapters are empirical in nature and utilize plant and/or firm level datasets. The second and third chapters are in the field of trade and labor economics; they focu…

This dissertation contains three essays in labor economics with a focus on economic and institutional differences in regional labor markets. It separately explores the causes and consequences of two major trends in the United States - the declining geographic concentration of im…