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Import competition and U.S. sentiment toward China

Arezki, Rabah; Duong Trung Le; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Hieu - 2024

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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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 … unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences. Exposed workers experience …

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The Role of Immigrants in the United States Labor Market and Chinese Import Competition

YU, CHAN - 2022

China. An interquartile increase in Chinese import exposure decreases the immigrant population by 5.4 percent but has little …

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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model, firms use discretion in terms of whom...

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

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The economic effects of employment protection : evidence from International Industry-Level Data

Micco, Alejandro (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-indifferences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...