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How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Dai, Mi - 2018
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922459
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Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2022
We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083992
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Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2021
This study provides empirical support for automatically activated associations inducing unequal treatment against the obese among recruiters in a real-life hiring situation. A field experiment on differential treatment against obese job applicants in hiring is combined with a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324815
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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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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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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