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services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience …
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International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made the country to target the world as its market. This...
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both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … of origin. However, the country of origin appears to matter quite a lot. Indeed, the detrimental effect of imports on …
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, 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 … between firm survival on the one hand and imports and two-way trading on the other hand, while exporting alone does not play a …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use...
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This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental-variables strategy introduced by Frankel and Romer (1999). We build predictors of openness to immigration and to trade...
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instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher …
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them more financially constrained. We do not find any evidence that changes in demand for Mexican workers in the US drive …
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are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a … trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …
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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...
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