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Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

Fehr, Hans - 2009

This paper develops a dynamic, life-cycle, general equilibrium model to study the interdependent demographic, fiscal, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period of rapid and significant aging requiring major fiscal...

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Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax

Fehr, Hans - 2013

We simulate corporate tax reform in a single good, five-region (U.S., Europe, Japan, China, India) model, featuring skilled and unskilled labor, detailed region-specific demographics and fiscal policies. Eliminating the model's U.S. corporate income tax produces rapid and dramatic increases in...

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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents

Autor, David H. - 2016

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal analysis of the effect of surging import competition on...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

-level approaches to estimate the size of (a) employment losses in directly exposed manufacturing industries, (b) employment effects in … indirectly exposed upstream and downstream industries inside and outside manufacturing, and (c) the net effects of conventional …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT …-intensive industries depending on the exact measures, though not since the late 1990s. Most challenging to this paradigm, and our … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment

Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Foster, Lucia; … - 2021

dispersion, (2) much of the between plant increase in dispersion is within industries, (3) the between plant measures of wage and …

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