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interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show that import exposure to low-wage countries has adversely affected … Western labor markets. Similarly, they have been used to show that import exposure has increased voter polarization. However … framework, we estimate that labor market adjustments explain most to all of the effect of import exposure on voting, thereby …
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This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …
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This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …
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Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …
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. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … in more trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced …
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Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that...
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We introduce quality differentiation and an extensive margin of products into a standard quantitative, general equilibrium model of international trade. Both the quality and the quantity of a product play a role in its contribution both to consumption and to production. The framework allows...
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-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …
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their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …
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