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Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced … 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination …
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clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of …
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exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … from China. Although population headcounts of the foreign-born fell by more than those of the native-born in regions … industries that would later see increased import penetration from China. The foreign-born share of the working-age population in …
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We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other …
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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 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided small businesses with roughly $800 billion dollars in uncollateralized, low-interest loans during the pandemic, almost all of which will be forgiven. With 93 percent of small businesses ultimately receiving one or more loans, the PPP nearly...
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The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U.S. wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change,...
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We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. We classify establishments as "AI exposed" when their workers engage in tasks that are...
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We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...
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We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
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