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Society's transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity, to power vehicles, and to manufacture the stuff of everyday life will profoundly disrupt the communities that currently dedicate themselves to...
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. Adverse 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 … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced …
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The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … analysis of the effect of surging import competition on U.S. innovative activities. Applying a novel internet-based matching … adjustment and for all measures of valuation suggest that the primary response of firms to greater import competition is to scale …
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employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through … 2007. Individuals who in 1991 worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner …. Import competition also induces substantial job churning among high-wage workers, but they are better able than low …
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while …
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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...
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Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs were either shorter and more domestic, or more diversified. But is this right? We start our answer by...
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This paper takes a step towards formalizing the theoretical interconnections among four post-Industrial Revolution phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid trade expansion. Specifically, we present a...
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-South commerce overtakes North-North flows. China's export specialization evolves rapidly over time, revealing a capacity to speed up … product ladders. Most developing countries hyper-specialize in handful of export products. The emergence of low- and middle …-income countries in trade reveals significant gaps in knowledge about the deep empirical determinants of export specialization, the …
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