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This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector … cumulative impact on net sales when we account for longer timeframes. Looking at import competition from China in third markets …
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Recent studies on oil market demonstrate endogeneity of oil price by modeling it as a function of consumption and precautionary demands and producers’ supply. However, studies analysing the effect of oil price uncertainty on investment, do not disentangle uncertainties raised by underlying...
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reallocation of resources has been productivity-enhancing, particularly in sectors that have experienced large-scale import …We study the impact of import competition on Mexican firm outcomes between 2003 and 2013 by exploiting variation in … import penetration across industries. Focusing on the increase in import competition from China that Mexico experienced …
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findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period …, procompetitive effect of trade on total factor productivity (TFP). However, as in the 1990s, these gains do not seem to have been … limits of trade policy in boosting employment and long-term productivity growth. Policymakers should manage their …
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import competition that may dampen employment gains. This paper finds that in the first decade of its existence, NAFTA had a …
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’s productivity growth decreases the relative nominal wage of the poor and the relative price index for the poor in Mexico and Brazil …
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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 …
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This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in the Peruvian manufacturing … informal sectors. The results suggest that greater import competition increased the chances of working in the informal sector …
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We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. We … individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We find substantial differences by gender. Men respond to import competition by … employment responses reflect differing opportunities in the self-employed sector: male workers exposed to import competition …
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By exploiting spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization, we … analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted to increased Chinese-import competition over different time horizons. The …
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