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. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … competition implies a reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the … employment rate. Reductions in population headcounts, which indicate net out-migration, register only for foreign-born workers …
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identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …
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rest of world. Most countries export products that complement the US and substitute China, and a subset operate along … downward-sloping supplies. Heterogeneity in responses, rather than specialization, drives export variation across countries …
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manufactures over the 15 years or so after the mid-1960's, the export shares of their multinational firms stayed fairly stable or … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of … siting of export production reflected the much greater export orientation of Swedish parents relative to U.S. parents …
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This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time …
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Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview...
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with global fixed export costs and one with bilateral fixed export costs. With global costs, import sales per product …-office revenues per movie. The data thus appear to reject the bilateral-fixed-export-cost model in favor of the global-fixed-export …
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This paper examines the stability of import and export demand functions for the United States over the 1975q1-2001q2 … period. Using the Johansen maximum likelihood approach, an export demand function is readily identified. In contrast, there …
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This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …
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export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign demand for U.S. cotton exports and uses the elasticity in a simple … partial equilibrium model to calculate the optimal export tax and its effect on prices, trade, and welfare. The results … indicate that the export demand elasticity for U.S. cotton was about -1.7 and that the optimal export tax of about 50 percent …
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