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competition from China. We do not find that Chinese import competition has a significant impact on the average wages of formal or …
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In this paper, I use Colombian data from 1996-2013 to construct two datasets that are used to assess whether the China … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment … is affected by the China Shock, the future growth rates of export performance and informality are not. …
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We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between 1998 and 2013. We exploit the spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization. We found that the adjustment took various forms:...
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the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … increasing the interindustry wage premium. The worker-level results suggest that industry-level import penetration from China and …
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This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low … one form or the other, these distortions have implied significant transfers from households to firms. If China is to …
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We revisit the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces. A comparison of off-sample (1996-2004) predictions to actual emissions indicates that more stringent rules are still needed to fight industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary...
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China’s exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the … different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. Somewhat … overlap in the export structure between China and high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human capital and government …
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manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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