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Labor Market Frictions, Firm Growth, and International Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper develops a model to study the aggregate effects of labor market frictions in an open economy through their impact on the growth and investment decisions of firms. The model features interactions between firms' dynamic fixed investments in exporting and search frictions with job-to-job...

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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-income Country

Pavcnik, Nina; McCaig, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effects of an export shock on labor allocation across household businesses and employers in the formal enterprise sector in a low-income country, Vietnam. We find that workers reallocate from household businesses to employers in the formal enterprise sector, with greater...

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Resident Networks and Firm Trade

Cohen, Lauren; Gurun, Umit G.; Malloy, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm's location, we can predict, on average, which trade links are valuable for firms. Using customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S....

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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence

Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Song, Jae; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import...

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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Dvorkin, Maximiliano; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We develop a dynamic labor search model where production and consumption take place in spatially distinct labor markets with varying exposure to domestic and international trade. The model recognizes the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and...

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Have Falling Tariffs and Transportation Costs Raised U.S. Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan E.; Slaughter, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

A number of studies have tried to gauge the effect of international trade on the rising U.S. skill premium by examining whether product prices in unskill-intensive sectors have fallen relative to prices in skill-intensive sectors. However, these studies do not estimate what share of domestic...

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Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and...

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Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

Trefler, Daniel; Liu, Runjuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … positive effects of inshoring and smaller negative effects of offshore outsourcing. The net effect is positive. To illustrate … how small the effects are, suppose that over the next nine years all of inshoring and offshore outsourcing grew at rates …

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