Ann E. Harrison

About

Ann E. Harrison is a renowned economist and the Gary and Sherron Kalbach Chair in Business Administration at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where she served as the 15th dean. She is a highly cited scholar specializing in foreign investment, multinational firms, international trade, and global strategy, with a particular focus on emerging markets such as India and China. Harrison has contributed significantly to understanding industrial policy, trade, offshoring, and the impact of globalization on labor and development. Her background includes a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley with a double major in economics and history. Prior to her deanship at Haas, she was the William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and served as the director of development policy at the World Bank. Her leadership at Haas included expanding faculty diversity, increasing fundraising, and launching innovative programs in sustainability, access, and entrepreneurship. Harrison's research and policy work have influenced global economic development, industrial policy, and the role of multinational corporations in emerging markets.

Research topics

• Business
• Economics
• Labour economics
• Monetary economics
• Economic geography
• Macroeconomics
• International economics
• Demographic economics
• Market economy
• Ecology

Selected publications

• Has Globalization Eroded Labor’s Share? Some Cross-Country Evidence

  World Scientific Studies in International Economics · 2022 · 168 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  In recent years, economists and other social scientists have devoted extensive research efforts to understanding the widening wage gap between high-skill and low-skill workers. This paper focuses on a slightly different question: how has globalization affected the relative share of income going to capital and labor? Using a panel of over one hundred countries, this paper analyses trends in labor shares and examines the relationship between shares and measures of globalization. Contrary to recent…

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• ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF TRADE AND OFFSHORING ON AMERICAN WORKERS USING THE CURRENT POPULATION SURVEYS

  World Scientific Studies in International Economics · 2022-07-01 · 136 citations

  book-chapterOpen access

  The authors link industry-level data on
\n trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from
\n the Current Population Surveys. They find that occupational
\n exposure to globalization is associated with larger wage
\n effects than industry exposure. This effect has been
\n overlooked because it operates between rather than within
\n sectors of the economy. The authors also find that
\n globalization is associated with a reallocation of workers
\n across…

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• OFFSHORING JOBS? MULTINATIONALS AND U.S. MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT

  World Scientific Studies in International Economics · 2022-07-01 · 77 citations

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding

  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 significantly different tasks at home and abroad, foreign and…

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• Can a Tiger Change Its Stripes? Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2019-01-01 · 74 citations

  preprint1st authorCorresponding

  The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two decades. Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2013, we show that privatized SOEs continue to benefit from government support relative to private enterprises. Compared to private firms that were never state-owned, privatized SOEs are favored by low interest loans and government subsidies. These differences are more salient with…

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• TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND WAGE INEQUALITY IN MEXICO

  World Scientific Studies in International Economics · 2022-07-01 · 39 citations

  book-chapterSenior author

  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 that sector, the authors suggest, may have falle…

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Recent grants

• Causes and Consequences of the "Missing Middle": Informality, Productivity, and the Size Distribution of Manufacturing Firms in India

  NSF · $291k · 2009–2014

• Overseas Investment and Labor Market Outcomes Using BEA Micro Data

  NSF · $153k · 2004–2008

Frequent coauthors

• Margaret McMillan

  Tufts University

  58 shared

• Avraham Ebenstein

  Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  56 shared

• Shannon Phillips

  Medical University of South Carolina

  52 shared

• Margaret McMillan

  University of Essex

  39 shared

• Lionel Fontagné

  35 shared

• Shanthi Nataraj

  30 shared

• Leslie Martin

  27 shared

• Justin Yifu Lin

  National Development and Reform Commission

  26 shared

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