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aim atexplaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non-neoclassicallabor market features … theimport as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid largebiases that characterized the …
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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 … also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …
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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 leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
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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 … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …
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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
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2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … to move out of manufacturing conditional on separation. These findings reveal that import shocks impose substantial labor …
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …
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Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...
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