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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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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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characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a … find that firms that increase imports of service inputs reduce employment of low-skill service workers, increase employment … survival. The employment composition and performance responses to service imports differ across firms in the manufacturing …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …
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effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact …
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effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact …
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This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in …
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generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find that the impacts of the export shock on employment, income, and home … net impact of the shock was to raise manufacturing sector employment by 250,000 workers over the decade of the 1970s. …
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We study the evolution of labor shares in 1995-2014, while taking into account international trade based on value added concepts. Declines in labor shares accelerate in 2001-2007, concurrently with global value chain (GVC) integration, after which there is no trend for both. We develop a...
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Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...
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