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2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms, conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, to estimate the …The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the … factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To contribute to this effort, we use data from the …
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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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This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises … (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …
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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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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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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
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This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...
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Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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