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Determinants of Export Behaviour of German Business Services Companies

Eickelpasch, Alexander Friedrich; Vogel, Alexander - 2009

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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents

Autor, David H. - 2019

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...

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On the Persistence of the China Shock

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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...

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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2021

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...

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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence

Autor, David H. - 2014

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...

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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found …

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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms : Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2021

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

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