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The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …
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. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
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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 …
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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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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 … China, a substantial fraction of commuting zones appears to have suffered absolute declines in average real incomes …
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We decompose the "China shock" into two components that induce different adjustments for firms exposed to Chinese … exports: a horizontal shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and a vertical …
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20% in the U.S. the dollar appreciates strongly, by almost the size of the tax adjustment, U.S. exports and imports … only a weak appreciation of the dollar, a small decline in imports and exports, but has a large negative effect on output …
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We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …
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show that import competition is a major cause of job polarization. Import competition with China accounts for about 17% of …
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Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import … from 1975 through 2000, this paper examines whether steel-sector IPs have a significant impact on the export … find that a one-standard-deviation increase in IP presence leads to a 3.6% decline in export competitiveness for an average …
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