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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …
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Export take-offs and acceleration : unpacking cross-sector linkages in the evolution of comparative advantage
Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018
The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian...
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Specialization, outsourcing and wages
Munch, Jakob Roland (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...
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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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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...
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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 …
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Trade and manufacturing jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
entrants and returnees from non-employment. We then investigate if rising trade with China and Eastern Europe causally affected …
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Gender, comparative advantage and labor market activity in immigrant families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001
The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...
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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...
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