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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 …

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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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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S....

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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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Networks and the Macroeconomy : An Empirical Exploration

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a powerful driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission...

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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 …

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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...

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