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aim atexplaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non-neoclassicallabor market features …
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also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …
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This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
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-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …
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This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental-variables strategy introduced by Frankel and Romer (1999). We build predictors of openness to immigration and to trade...
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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 … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …
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We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration … for individual and municipality features, we find that individuals living in municipalities more exposed to Chinese import … migrate to the US. In particular, we find that Chinese import competition reduces migrants' negative self-selection: the …
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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 wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …
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This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …
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