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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410225
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial...
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. Because most U.S. immigrants arrived in the country after manufacturing regions were already mature, few took up jobs in …
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(positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by schooling level and source country in OECD destinations, we find that a …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the … is increasing in the absolute earnings difference between high and low-skilled workers. We use our framework to compare …
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(positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by schooling level and source country in OECD destinations, we find that a …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the … is increasing in the absolute earnings difference between high and low-skilled workers. We use our framework to compare …
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market adjustment in this episode was small. Because most U.S. immigrants arrived in the country after manufacturing regions …
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During the 1980s in Mexico the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers widened. The authors assess the extent to which this increased wage inequality was associated with Mexico's sweeping trade reform in 1985. Examining data on 2,354 Mexican manufacturing plants for 1984-90 and Mexican...
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696961