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mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from …
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Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological discussion of the similarities and...
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We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...
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did not find any effect of culture on savings. We revisit this evidence using a novel dataset, which allows us to study …
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implications for culture-led welfare policies …
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets … instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher …
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decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have … of Chinese import penetration at the firm level on wages within job-spells and over the longer term taking transitions in … the labor market into account. We find that greater exposure to Chinese imports corresponds to a negative firm …
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a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … equilibrium channels - weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import …
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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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