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We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...
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nationalism and to have hostile relations with immigrants. Multiple equilibria are possible and better schooling may eliminate … theoretical model. -- Nationalism ; immigration ; interpersonal relations ; value systems …
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We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
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Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census and from recent years of the Current Population Survey (CPS), we investigate whether selective intermarriage and endogenous ethnic identification interact to hide some of the intergenerational progress achieved by the Mexican-origin population in the...
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a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … equilibrium channels - weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import …
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets … instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher … more trade-exposed labor markets. -- trade flows ; import competition ; local labor markets ; China …
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decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have … of Chinese import penetration at the firm level on wages within job-spells and over the longer term taking transitions in … the labor market into account. We find that greater exposure to Chinese imports corresponds to a negative firm …
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China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it … unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences. Exposed workers experience …
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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 … - 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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to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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