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Shifts in U.S. Relative Wages : The Role of Trade, Technology and Factor Endowments
Baldwin, Robert E. - 2010
This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated compared to more educated workers between 1967 and 1992: increased import competition, changes in the relative supplies of labor of different education levels and changes in...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083804
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International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States
Krishna, Pravin - 2009
This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We then combine our estimates of persistent labor income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159518
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International Trade and Finance Under the Two Hegemons : Complementaries in the United Kingdom 1870-1913 and the United States 1920-30
Taylor, Alan M. - 2007
Do international trade and finance flow together? In theory, trade and finance can be substitutes or complements, so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778305
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778835
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The U.S. Current Account Deficit : Gradual Correction or Abrupt Adjustment?
Edwards, Sebastian - 2010
In this paper I use a large multi-country data set to analyze the determinants of abrupt and large %u201Ccurrent account reversals.%u201D The results from a variance-component probit model indicate that the probability of experiencing a major current account reversal is positively affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761662
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Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns
Eaton, Jonathan - 2010
endowments theory would predict, the United States tends to trade more with densely-populated countries, while Japan tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763473
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219298
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Japanese and U.S. Exports and Investment as Conduits of Growth
Eaton, Jonathan; Tamura, Akiko - 2021
around the world. Consistent with the theory we find that the importance of DFI relative to exports grows with population …, although, contrary to our theory, the elasticity of DFI, as well as exports, with respect to population is less than one. We … find that distance tends to inhibit DFI much less than it inhibits exports, as our theory predicts. We find some tendency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225821
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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010
We combine data on individual trade transactions from U.S. customs records with comprehensive information on firms' employment from the Census Bureau's business register to examine wholesalers and retailers in U.S. exports and imports. Exporters and importers with 100 percent employment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148857