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also suggest that China's household registration (Hukou) system prevents the mobility of urban residents more than it … in response to regional demand shifts between 2000 and 2005. Results from OLS regressions show that population changes of … groups. These findings explain increases in skill premia in coastal regions after China's entry into the WTO, but it does not …
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Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U ….S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the … trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into prefecture-level cities and construct measures of export exposure …
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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … demand. More negatively affected regions see modest increases in the uptake of government transfers, but these transfers … - similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock …
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Exploiting variation in exposure to Chinese import growth across U.S. local markets, I investigate the effects of import competition on self-employment between 1990 and 2014. I find Chinese import competition had negative effects on self-employment during the 1990s. However, the negative effects...
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increased imports from China and manufacturing jobs in US local labour markets following the seminal paper of Autor, Dorn, and … differences in the pattern of regions that are most affected by the trade shock and show that imports from China can explain less … of the decline in US manufacturing than what gross trade data would suggest. We then separate the shock into a China …
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We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before … turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to import competition from China have experienced a greater deterioration …
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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … demand. More negatively affected regions see modest increases in the uptake of government transfers, but these transfers … similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock …
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The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past few decades has raised concerns about manufacturing jobs and internal labor market outcomes in high-income countries. I analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition on Finnish regional manufacturing employment between 1995 and 2007. The...
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With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese …
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-induced shocks to labor demand …
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