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from China. Although population headcounts of the foreign-born fell by more than those of the native-born in regions … exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … industries that would later see increased import penetration from China. The foreign-born share of the working-age population in …
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We study the economic and political consequences of the 2018-2019 trade war between the United States, China and other …
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This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global … that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity … growth acted as a counterforce. Consistent with the data, our model demonstrates that China's trade openness peaked around …
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We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate …
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our theoretical results to China's 2001 WTO accession, we find that China's tariff reductions exceeded reciprocity norms …, increasing real incomes but amplifying the manufacturing employment dislocation - the China Shock - in the United States and …
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In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...
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We examine the repercussions of protectionist policies implemented in the United States since 2018 on the composition of workforce and career choices within the semiconductor industry. We find that the shift towards protectionism, aimed at reviving domestic manufacturing and employment,...
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This paper extends the literature on monopsony and labor market concentration by taking a task-based approach and estimating the causal effect of concentration in the demand for skills on labor market outcomes. The prior literature has focused on industry and occupation concentration and likely...
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Using administrative data on health insurance, retirement, and leave benefits, we find within-firm variation accounts for a dramatically lower percentage of total variation in benefits than in wages. We also document sharply higher between-firm variation in nonwage benefits than in wages. We...
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Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...
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