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Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on employment growth of 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Three salient findings emerge. First, rising local exposure to import competition, via falling US tariffs or rising Chinese import...
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in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
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This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
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We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …
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Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …
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China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting …
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Before the recent rebound due to the US-China trade war, tariffs on international trade were being progressively …
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China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China. Using data on U.S. imports in conjunction with quarterly Mexican labor force surveys, we show that U.S. imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …
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We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one …
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We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...
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