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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
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 … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861314
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2021
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314978
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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084041
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate : Evidence from Mexico
Majlesi, Kaveh - 2018
We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926698
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Import Competition and Gender Differences in Labor Reallocation
Mansour, Hani - 2020
composition before China entered the global market in 2001. We find that exposure to Chinese imports led to short-run declines in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825008
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New Imported Inputs, Wages and Worker Mobility
Colantone, Italo - 2019
We study how firms and industries adjust to increasing international trade in intermediate inputs. In particular, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage dynamics, on the skill-composition of the labor force, on worker mobility, and on assortative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859773
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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Feler, Leo - 2016
We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982120
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms : Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with … productive enterprises into imports, but no evidence for positive effects of importing on productivity due to learning-by-importing …
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