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We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input … gain due to merchandise exports was 3.7 million jobs. In comparison, U.S. merchandise imports from China led to reduced … total job losses of 2.0 million. It follows that the expansion in U.S. merchandise exports to the world relative to imports …
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of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and …
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imports in an effort to force other countries to revalue their currencies against the dollar. The import surcharge was lifted …
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sensitive to the treatment of time trends. Estimates of aggregate imports are more problematic. In many cases, Chinese aggregate … imports actually rise in response to a RMB depreciation and decline with Chinese GDP. This is true even after accounting for … the fact a substantial share of imports are subsequently incorporated into Chinese exports. We find that some of these …
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The purpose of this paper is to theoretically assess, from a welfare perspective, the desirability of uniform import tariffs. Since the eruption of the debt crisis, many proposals for structural reforms in the developing countries have contemplated a trade liberalization process that would...
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Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it is complementary to skilled labor. Most countries import a large share of their capital equipment, and by doing so import skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a...
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We track US imports of advanced technology wind and solar power-generation equipment from a panel of countries during … imports of the both categories have grown at significantly higher rate from the relatively poorer countries, particularly …
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.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 losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and …
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destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …
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We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … as instruments. Our regression results show that firms that expanded their intermediate input imports expanded the volume …
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