Showing 1 - 10 of 36,959
China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …. Firm-level outsourcing to China further accounts for a small but significant increase in the share of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854491
indicate that China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition from China … competition has no effect on firm survival, while offshoring of finished goods to China actually increases firms' probability of … survival. In terms of skill upgrading, the effect of Chinese imports is large. Import competition from China accounts for 27 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595058
We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361989
Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145441
would shift away from less-skilled workers towards more-skilled workers if outsourcing to China increased and outsourcing to … and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets. The main findings … outsourcing and the international fragmentation of production. Third, reflecting the fact that outsourcing to Asia (particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962869
China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is … important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and … the issue of regional disparities in poverty distribution in China. It finds an increasing concentration of the rural poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977461
as China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050530
This paper builds on recent generalisations of theory and empirics of comparative advantage and establishes the relative importance of different sources of comparative advantage in explaining trade, with particular focus on policy and institutional factors. The broad policy and institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319069
in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by about 2.0%. This China effect entails a drop of 14% in producer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275961
Have exogenous changes in import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) brought about changes in inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from Asia and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688163