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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 instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by...
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understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …
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reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer …
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increasing import penetration, China's entry into the WTO, and growing US multinational employment abroad. We find significant … between industry and occupational analyses. While other research has focused primarily on China's trade, we find that … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much …
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benefit. Differentiation increases the gains from trade. In establishment data from China spanning its 2001 WTO accession …
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This paper examines the relative "sophistication" of China's exports to the United States along two dimensions. First …, I compare China's export bundle to those of the relatively skill- and capital-abundant members of the OECD as well as to … similarly endowed U.S. trading partners. Second, I examine prices within product categories to determine if China's varieties …
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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs …
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Collective reputation implies an important externality. Among firms trading internationally, quality shocks about one firm’s products could affect the demand of other firms from the same origin country. We study this issue in the context of a large-scale scandal that affected the Chinese dairy...
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. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
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