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competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …
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holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more …
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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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This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment … in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …
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The increased range and quality of China's exports is a major ongoing development in the international economy with … potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct effects of increased imports from China studied in previous … and employment are significantly negatively affected by China's competition, but only through the indirect 'market …
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to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of …
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Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous … formal firms' hiring of contract workers, who do not carry stringent string costs. Overall, Chinese import competition …
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respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition from China. Although foreign-born population headcounts fell by … were already mature, few took jobs in industries that later saw import surges. The foreign-born population share in regions …
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We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the EU. Using administrative data on the universe of...
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compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …. -- technical change ; TFP growth ; provinces ; China ; ICT ; FDI ; infrastructure …
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