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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance : Evidence Form Four New EU Members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125463
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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Lin, Carl - 2013
mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086220
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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087894
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Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780529
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861314
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Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China
Jinkins, David Carson - 2014
I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050618
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021857
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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi - 2020
evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution … of childhood circumstances to health inequality is larger in the USA than in China for self-rated health, mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828599
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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128216
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Facchini, Giovanni - 2011
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128227