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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …
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China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it … has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the … heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts …
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emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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merchandise trade. …
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Russia's brutal military aggression on Ukraine has led to extensive economic sanctions by Western countries and the withdrawal of many foreign companies from Russian markets. The isolation of Russia from the international community has substantially restricted its access to advanced technologies...
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to the military attack on Ukraine. These sanctions include various restrictive measures on trade with Russia. In this … brief, we examine the potential short-term effects of trade sanctions on Russian production with an input-output framework …. We find that the trade sanctions can have substantial negative effects on Russian production when Russia is unable to …
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We use data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey to analyse how public attitudes towards trade have changed over time … in developed economies, and how these attitudes differ across groups in the population. Attitudes towards trade … larger increases in Chinese import competition. Perhaps surprisingly, given that barriers to trade appear to be on the …
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This brief examines the development of Russia's trade flows in the March-June period following Russia's invasion of … Ukraine. Russia ceased publication of foreign trade statistics after the war broke out, so we utilize the trade statistics of …. Russian industrial output reflects a shift in foreign trade. High-tech industries reliant on imported inputs contracted, while …
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This brief considers the role of East Asian economies in Russia's technology imports. The EU, US and UK have set strict sanctions and export restrictions on Russia in response to the war in Ukraine, while responses from East Asian economies have been mixed. By restricting exports of technology...
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economies. Countries imposing sanctions on Russia accounted for half of Russia's foreign trade and over half of foreign … financial flows before the war. We analyse the development of Russia's trade and financial relations in recent months and find … that Russia's success in reorienting its trade and investment flows has been mixed. …
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