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.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …
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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find that import … competition did not have persistent negative employment effects on men or led them to sort into the non-tradable or informal …
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empirical literature studying the “China shock.” We find that the China shock leads to average welfare increases in most U …
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The extensive literature on university graduates’ regional mobility highlights the importance of early mobility but is primarily descriptive. We contribute the identification of the effect of mobility upon high-school graduation on subsequent mobility across labour market regions. The data...
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The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments …
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publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …
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We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...
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In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but growing evidence on the external relevance of...
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In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers’ career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such...
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