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The impact of the Chinese import shock on Finnish regional labor markets
Holappa, Veera - In: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association : JFEA 3 (2022) 1, pp. 21-39
The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past few decades has raised concerns about manufacturing jobs and internal … regional manufacturing employment between 1995 and 2007. The analysis exploits the cross-regional variation in initial industry … rising Chinese import competition has a negative effect on the share of manufacturing employment in Finnish sub-regions. …
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Analysis and Assessment of ICT Innovations Impact on Competitiveness of Foreign Economic Relations : Azerbaijan's Experience
Abasova, Samira - 2022
Considering that the modified and improved ICT service becomes a commodity in the domestic and foreign markets, it can be said with complete certainty that the improved service in the domestic market, i. e. as a commodity, meets the demand of domestic consumers. But the updated and improved ICT...
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Employment and exchange rates : the role of openness and technology
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2009
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...
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Employment, exchange rates and labour market rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model affects the impact of exchange rate movements on...
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Self-employment in the global economy
Díez, Federico J.; Ozdagli, Ali - 2011
This paper studies the eff ects of foreign competition on self-employment levels. We begin by pointing out a previously unknown fact: the greater the exposure to foreign competition, the smaller the fraction of self-employed people. This fact holds across very different countries, across...
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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …
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The China syndrome : local labor market effects of import competition in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing ….S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696961
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Made in China, sold in Norway : local labor market effects of an import shock
Balsvik, Ragnhild; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
estimates suggest that import competition from China explains almost 10% of the reduction in the manufacturing employment share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381887
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Worker-level consequences of import shocks
Nilsson-Hakkala, Katariina; Huttunen, Kristiina - 2016
We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with product-level trade data. We focus on Chinese imports and instrument them...
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … their initial two-digit manufacturing industries, and more time working elsewhere in manufacturing and outside of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410225