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We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United … considerable number of jobs. On balance over the entire 1991-2007 period, job gains due to changes in US global exports were …
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, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …
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We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers … in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment …
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This paper provides firm-level evidence that credit constraints restrict international trade flows and affect the sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint ventures have better export performance than private...
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exports from their long-run level. We study the export trends of a sample of 37 countries including both OECD and non …-OECD countries over the period of 1994-2009. We find that exports overshot their equilibrium value during economic crises and that …
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This paper re-explores the relation between a country's level of wealth and the mix of products it exports. We argue … relationship between a country's export mix and its wage (GDP per capita). We show that this non-monotonicity permeates the 1980 …-2005 international data on trade and GDP per capita. Our setup also explains two other facets of the data: (1) Product ranges are huge …
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To quantify trade frictions, we examine multi-product exporters. We build a flexible general equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination data under rich demand and market-access cost shocks. Our estimates show that additional products farther from a...
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exports to advanced countries, and second, the prevalence of US dollar invoicing in Japanese exports to East Asia even though … findings suggest that a surprisingly low share of yen invoicing among Japanese exports even in the 2000s can be attributable to …
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We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 using the structural gravity model. Constructed Home, Domestic and Foreign Bias indexes (the last two new) capture the direct plus indirect effect of services trade costs on...
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We estimate the elasticity of exports to credit using matched customs and firm-level bank credit data from Peru. To … account for non-credit determinants of exports, we compare changes in exports of the same product and to the same destination … that credit shocks affect the intensive margin of exports, but have no significant impact on entry or exit of firms to new …
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