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The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge
Weisbrod, Aaron - 2011
significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries, accounting for up to 10% of total inward FDI flows for certain countries in … these years. We use growth accounting methods to assess what portion of this elevated growth can be attributed to Chinese … thirteen Sub-Saharan African countries excluding Chinese FDI inflows for 2005-2007 and also 2003-2009. Our individual results …
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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2012
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets … instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106658
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The China Shock : Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
Autor, David H. - 2016
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial...
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Sizing Up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017
Chinese electronics exports. Our key finding is that "missing pioneers" are a low-probability event for large countries, but …
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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2014
relative declines during each event window; a symmetric effect is observed for Chinese companies with high Japanese exposure …. The effect on Japanese companies is more pronounced for those operating in industries dominated by Chinese state …-owned enterprises, while firms with high Chinese employment experience lower declines. These results emphasize the role of countries …
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IV Quantile Regression for Group-Level Treatments, with an Application to the Distributional Effects of Trade
Chetverikov, Denis - 2015
increased Chinese import competition than high-wage earners. Our approach applies to a broad range of settings in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025812
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Why are American Workers Getting Poorer? China, Trade and Offshoring
Ebenstein, Avraham - 2015
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...
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International Trade and Job Polarization : Evidence at the Worker-Level
Keller, Wolfgang - 2016
This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization– the decline in opportunities for mid-wage workers while those for high- and low-wage workers increase. With employer-employee matched data on virtually all workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989722
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Escaping Import Competition in China
Fieler, Ana Cecilia - 2018
In a stylized model, firms differentiate their products to escape import com- petition. Facing a nested CES demand, each firm chooses between a nest with competitors and its own nest under higher costs. The profit from differentiation is an inverted U-shaped function of firm productivity. It...
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The Relative Sophistication of Chinese Exports
Schott, Peter K. - 2021
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...
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