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This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
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We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting … regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries …
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...
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emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …
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2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …
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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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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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the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women …
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Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
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