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since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in … the country and its international economic policies has increased among international economists who are not China … economists who are exploring China-related issues, either in the classroom or in their own research …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...
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We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009 …
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We suggest that the impact of globalization on wages has been missed because its effects must be captured by analyzing … occupational exposure to globalization. In this paper, we extend our previous work to include recent years (2003-2008), a period of … increasing import penetration, China's entry into the WTO, and growing US multinational employment abroad. We find significant …
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In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …
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Chinese imports and exports grew rapidly during the first three decades of the twentieth century as China opened up to … for unskilled workers producing these goods in China. When the war ended, trade costs declined, leading to a rise in China …'s terms of trade and further growth in China's export sector. Difference-in-differences regression estimates show that World …
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We analyze shifts in the structure of China’s capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows … enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant impact on global financial markets as China continues to open up its … foreign portfolio allocations, Chinese IIs overweight sectors in which China has a comparative disadvantage. Moreover, Chinese …
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. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
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We identify “first generation” statistics to measure offshoring as the share of imported intermediate inputs in costs, along with O*NET data to measure the tradability of tasks. These data were used to measure the shifts in relative labor demand and relative wages due to offshoring. A...
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