Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and …. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …

Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 emerging market economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition … instrumental variables and a battery of checks, we provide robust evidence of a positive relationship between foreign competition …

life expectancies in poor and rich countries began to converge. Another example comes from China, where authorities …

Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows … skill levels (education). We calibrate the model to match the features of the Western European countries (EU-15) and the new … Eastern European members of the EU. We then simulate the effects of freer trade and higher labor mobility between the two …

the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for … within-country inequality, depending on the dimension of globalization involved (e.g. trade versus factor flows), on the …

Chinese imports and exports grew rapidly during the first three decades of the twentieth century as China opened up to … for unskilled workers producing these goods in China. When the war ended, trade costs declined, leading to a rise in China …'s terms of trade and further growth in China's export sector. Difference-in-differences regression estimates show that World …