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Understanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment Exports to the United States
Sawhney, Aparna - 2011
We track US imports of advanced technology wind and solar power-generation equipment from a panel of countries during 1989-2010, and examine the determining factors including sector-specific US FDI outflow, country size, and domestic wind and solar power generation. Differentiating between the...
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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Pierce, Justin R. - 2012
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...
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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2012
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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Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
demand: this is the so-called "import comparability" or "proportionality" assumption. A report to the National Research …
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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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Winners and Losers in International Trade : The Effects on U.S. Presidential Voting
Jensen, J. Bradford - 2016
effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to …
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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-Output Database. We find that the growth in U.S. exports led to increased demand for 2 million jobs in manufacturing, 0.5 million in resource industries, and a remarkable 4.1 million jobs...
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Quality Upgrading and its Welfare Cost in U.S. Steel Imports, 1969-74
Boorstein, Randi - 2010
import expenditure during 1970-73. This cost is at least as large as the conventional deadweight loss triangle, but smaller …
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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 … 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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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the … local labor market level, consistent with local general equilibrium effects that amplify the impact of import competition …
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