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International Economic Activities and the Demand for Skilled Labor : Evidence from Brazil and China
Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2016
Increases in international economic integration can lead to greater specialization according to comparative advantage, but also to the diffusion of skill-biased technologies. In developing countries characterized by relative abundance of unskilled labor, these factors can have opposite effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749038
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Does distance matter in foreign direct investment sub-national location choice? : evidence from China
Bi, Yibo; Ren, Zhiyi; Bao, Kun - In: Frontiers of business research in China : selected … 14 (2020) 2, pp. 237-255
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426959
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Foreign Firms and Chinese Employment
Karlsson, Sune - 2010
This paper examines the effect of FDI on employment in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world's largest … recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However, one of the … main challenges for China, and other developing countries, is job-creation, and the effect of FDI on employment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137265
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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528574
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Chinese regional inequality and sectoral foreign direct investment
Azarhoushang, Behzad; Wu, Jennifer Pédussel; Zaroki, … - 2019
world, after the USA, in terms of stock of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Sustained GDP growth, a high rate of … paper uses Panel Least Squares method to empirically analyze the impact of industrial sector FDI on Chinese regional … inequality during 2003-2013. The resulting analysis shows the connection between FDI in industrial sectors and regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006056
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The China shock : learning from labor market adjustment to large changes in trade
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452672
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FDI and Job Creation in China
Karlsson, Sune; Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; He, Ping - 2007
This paper examines the effect of FDI on job creation in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world …'s largest recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However …, one of the main challenges for China, and other developing countries, is job-creation, and the effect of FDI on job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320099
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The surprisingly swift decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229883
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010144
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021857