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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
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On the persistence of the China shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … - similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …
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Rent sharing in China : magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers
Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …
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Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation : evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants
Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted U- shaped relationship between temperature and TFP and...
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Import competition, formalization, and the role of contract labor
Chakraborty, Pavel; Rahul Singh; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022
Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports increases the share of formal manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470223
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Trading places : mobility responses of native and foreign-born adults to the China trade shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2024
respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition from China. Although foreign-born population headcounts fell by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046089
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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008
Trade unionism is a legislative system of organizing workers and raising voices for economic and social goods. As the process of global integration deepens the labour market become more flexible and fragmented, rendering collective organization more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the...
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Analysis of pay inequality and its impacts on growth and performance in the Korean manufacturing industry
Kim, Yunhee (contributor); Lee, Jeong-dong (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...
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Real wages over the business cycle : OECD evidence from the time and frequency domains
Messina, Julian (contributor); Strozzi, Chiara (contributor) - 2008
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-country heterogeneity even after controlling for...
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Do temporary contracts affect TFP? : evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms
Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Stucchi, Rodolfo (contributor) - 2008
This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under plausible conditions, workers' effort depends positively on their perception (for given level of...
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