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Magnification of the ‘China Shock’ Through the U.S. Housing Market

Xu, Yuan; Ma, Hong; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2022

to work. Controlling for housing reduces the negative coefficient of import exposure on manufacturing employment by 20 …-25%, with a significant indirect magnification through the housing market. Combining manufacturing and construction employment …, the indirect effect of the China shock through the housing market explains one-fifth as much of the variance in employment …

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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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The ‘China Shock’, Exports and U.S. Employment : A Global Input-Output Analysis

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input …

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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990

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

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and nonproduction workers. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technical change is measured by the shift towards high-technology capital such...

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