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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in …

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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents

Autor, David H. - 2019

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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Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Coughlin, Cletus C.; Wall, Howard J. - 2021

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which have noteworthy empirical...

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Female Labor Supply : Why is the US Falling Behind?

Blau, Francine D. - 2013

other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …

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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University‐Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : Does Policy Matter?

Clarke, Andrew James - 2018

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …

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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States

Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009

I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...

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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Ebell, Monique - 2006

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...

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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017

marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

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'Can't Get Enough' : Prejudice, Contact Jobs and the Racial Wage Gap in the US

Laouénan, Morgane - 2014

The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

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