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Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

combine data on employment and earnings in two-digit manufacturing industries for U.S. border cities with data on employment …

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

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages : Evidence from Mexico'S Maquiladoras

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which correspond to an increase in outsourcing by...

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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China...

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2017

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

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Pricing and Reimbursement in U.S. Pharmaceutical Markets

Berndt, Ernst R. - 2010

In this survey chapter on pricing and reimbursement in U.S. pharmaceutical markets, we first provide background information on important federal legislation, institutional details regarding distribution channel logistics, definitions of alternative price measures, related historical...

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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2012

-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

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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Testing the Melitz Model of Trade : an Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

In this paper, we develop a simple empirical method to test two alternative versions of the Melitz (2003) model, one with global fixed export costs and one with bilateral fixed export costs. With global costs, import sales per product variety (relative to domestic sales per variety) are...

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

Autor, David H. - 2016

-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …

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