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Immigration and trade creation for the US : the role of immigrant occupation
Mundra, Kusum - 2012
This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679502
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Hit by the silk road : how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock
Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020
economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221759
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … ; employment ; China ; Eastern Europe ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558995
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China's emergence in the world economy and business cycles in Latin America
Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, … - 2011
vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311486
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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315433
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Workers' views of the impact of trade on jobs
Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - 2010
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers' perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312885
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Same same but different : dialects and trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, … - 2013
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show that this trade-promoting effect of language...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740276
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Immigrant networks and US bilateral trade : the role of immigrant income
Mundra, Kusum - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153045
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Untangling trade and technology : evidence from local labor markets
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729339
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The geography of trade and technology shocks in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729346