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We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...
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trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which … are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a …
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activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … advantages of trading firms are eaten up by extra costs related to selling and buying on foreign markets. -- exports ; imports …
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instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher …
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both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … side, we find (on the basis of the system GMM estimator) a positive effect of exports on industry wage premia. The results … of origin. However, the country of origin appears to matter quite a lot. Indeed, the detrimental effect of imports on …
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exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and … capital. Accounting for entry-cohort effects and age effects, our findings suggest that within-industry changes in imports and …
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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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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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We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising import competition has led to reduced employment in...
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extensive and intensive trade margins using state-level exports to foreign nations. Our theoretical analysis provides definitive … intensive margin is approximated by the average firm exports of a state. Various count-data models, such as the standard …, empirical findings suggest that variable costs reduce average exports. A noteworthy finding is that U.S. foreign direct …
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