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the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a … can fall, stay the same or rise, depending upon the strength of the shock and various product and factor market …
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This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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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 … 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse …
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An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
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This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in recent years due to Chinese import competition did not...
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returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …
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during the Great Leap Forward famine in China, and by examining the intergenerational consequences of the famine on those who …
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This paper revisits the standard model of labor supply under two additional assumptions: consumption requires time and some limited amount of work is enjoyable. Whereas introducing each assumption without the other one does not produce novel insights, combining them together does if the wage...
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inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … in endogenous growth theory, but modified to allow for demand-side constraints. This is a novel approach, given that … endogenous growth models, and including most recent work on AI in economic growth, are largely supply-driven.Our contribution is …
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China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
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