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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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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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interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show that import exposure to low-wage countries has adversely affected … Western labor markets. Similarly, they have been used to show that import exposure has increased voter polarization. However … framework, we estimate that labor market adjustments explain most to all of the effect of import exposure on voting, thereby …
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This paper investigates the dynamics of firm growth in the U. S.manufacturing sector in the recent past. I use panel data on thepublicly traded firms in the U. S. manufacturing sector: from auniverse of approximately 1800 firms in 1976, I am able to follow mostof them for at least three years,...
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The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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This paper distinguishes between the competitive position of U.S. firms and that of the U.S. and other countries as geographical locations for production. While the share of the U.S. in world exports of manufactures fellmore than 40 per cent between 1957 and 1977, the share of all U.S. firms...
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This paper provides an overview of recent trends in the U.S. basic industries. It first documents the dramatic fall in their shares of domestic employment and global production. It then considers explanations for these industries' relative -- and, in some instances, absolute -- decline. Those...
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We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small … find that a 0.01 increase in the import share leads to a 1.05% gain in technical efficiency. This elasticity translates … get from their ”core” good and firms respond to competition by focusing more on their core products. Instrumenting import …
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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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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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