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also suggest that China's household registration (Hukou) system prevents the mobility of urban residents more than it … in response to regional demand shifts between 2000 and 2005. Results from OLS regressions show that population changes of … groups. These findings explain increases in skill premia in coastal regions after China's entry into the WTO, but it does not …
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Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U ….S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the … trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into prefecture-level cities and construct measures of export exposure …
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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … demand. More negatively affected regions see modest increases in the uptake of government transfers, but these transfers … - similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock …
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Exploiting variation in exposure to Chinese import growth across U.S. local markets, I investigate the effects of import competition on self-employment between 1990 and 2014. I find Chinese import competition had negative effects on self-employment during the 1990s. However, the negative effects...
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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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increased imports from China and manufacturing jobs in US local labour markets following the seminal paper of Autor, Dorn, and … differences in the pattern of regions that are most affected by the trade shock and show that imports from China can explain less … of the decline in US manufacturing than what gross trade data would suggest. We then separate the shock into a China …
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We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before … turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to import competition from China have experienced a greater deterioration …
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China. An interquartile increase in Chinese import exposure decreases the immigrant population by 5.4 percent but has little …
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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … demand. More negatively affected regions see modest increases in the uptake of government transfers, but these transfers … similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock …
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