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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2017
Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...
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Survival of the Best Fit : Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of US Manufacturing Plants
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2002
We examine the relationship between import competition from low wage countries and the reallocation of US manufacturing from 1977 to 1997. Both employment and output growth are slower for plants that face higher levels of low wage import competition in their industry. As a result, US...
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Lobbying Behind the Frontier
Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This chapter investigates the non-market response of firms to international trade shocks increasing the level of competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms...
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Commercial Rivalry as Seller Incidence Shifting : Non-parametric Accounting of the China Shock
Anderson, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Intense US-China commercial rivalry is quantified in this paper with novel non-parametric relative resistance sufficient statistics. The accounting method minimizes the demand specification error variance in revealed resistances. China's manufacturing seller incidence falls (seller price rises)...
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The Employment and Wage Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Grossman, Gene M. - 1982
sensitivity of employment to the domestic price of imports varies significantly across these nine sectors, whereas industry wages … of unemployment and wages so generated and the actual, historical paths are attributed to the effects of import … in wages in two industries, among the nine studied …
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US Trade and Wages : The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory
Edwards, Lawrence - 2010
is widely applied. It serves as the basis for estimating the impact of trade on wages using two-sector simulation models …
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Wages, Employment, Training and Job Attachment in Low Wage Labor Marketsfor Women
Gustman, Alan L. - 1986
This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...
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Retirement Implications of a Low Wage Growth, Low Real Interest Rate Economy
Scott, Jason - 2019
progressivity as average wages fall along with individual wages …
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs : Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator
Cengiz, Doruk - 2019
, we estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the frequency distribution of hourly wages using 138 prominent state … no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages. However, we do find some evidence of …
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Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market : Theory and Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers
Dube, Arindrajit; Naidu, Suresh; Reich, Adam Dalton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We measure workers' preferences for wages and non-wage amenities at America's largest employer, Walmart, using targeted … literature. We document significant complementarities between wages and non-wage amenities, suggesting that measures of monopsony …
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