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US trade partners at the detailed geographic level, exploiting measures of local exposure to US import tariffs, foreign …: import tariffs on foreign goods neither raised nor lowered US employment in newly-protected sectors; retaliatory tariffs had … success for the governing Republican party. Residents of regions more exposed to import tariffs became less likely to identify …
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An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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In the two decades straddling China's WTO accession, the China Shock, i.e. the rapid trade integration of China in the early 2000's, has had a profound economic impact across U.S. regions. It is now both an internationally litigated issue and the casus belli for a global trade war. Were its...
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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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This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyze the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
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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 …
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We analyze several rounds of U.S. import restrictions against washing machines. Using retail price data, we estimate … the price effect of these import restrictions by comparing the price changes of washers with those of other appliances. We …-specific import price changes on country-specific tariff changes. Production relocation effects, price changes by domestic brands, and …
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How much has the US-China tariff war impacted economic outcomes in China? We address this question using high-frequency night lights data, together with measures of the trade exposure of fine grid locations constructed from Chinese firms' geo-coordinates. Exploiting within-grid variation over...
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China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …
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