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Using yearly Indonesian labor market data for 2000 to 2015, we investigate the impact of a protectionist foreign direct investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly granular product level and has been repeatedly...
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We analyze the effect of rising protectionism towards foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic employment, exploiting revisions in Indonesia’s highly-granular negative investment list, and spatial variation in the exposure of the manufacturing sector to these investment restrictions. Rising...
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shocks across industries. We take advantage of China’s supply and demand’s worldwide shocks to instrument for Chinese import … competition and demand for Chilean exports. Our main finding is that increasing manufacturing import competition implied a …
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We investigate the effects of Chinese import competition on transitions into and out of employment using comparable … worker-level data for 14 European countries. Our results indicate that, on average, Chinese imports are associated with an … due to Chinese competition, but unemployed workers' prospects seem to be particularly negatively affected in these …
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a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … equilibrium channels — weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import …
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' earnings fall via reductions in hours worked, wages, and promotions. Combined, the hiring and coworker spillovers offset most …
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This study uses input-output labor-accounting to estimate the impact of rising imports from China on US employment. Our … counterfactual analysis incorporates offsets from substitution for imports from other countries, increased US exports to China and … other countries, and job gains in downstream sectors using imported inputs. We find that from 2000 to 2016, the China shock …
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' earnings fall via reductions in hours worked, wages, and promotions. Combined, the hiring and coworker spillovers offset most …
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This paper explores the effects of offshoring, technology and Chinese import competition on labor market polarization … we also find some tentative evidence that Chinese import competition contributed as well. In other private industries … find that Chinese import competition contributed to the decline of employment in the less polarized manufacturing …
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respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition from China. Although foreign-born population headcounts fell by … were already mature, few took jobs in industries that later saw import surges. The foreign-born population share in regions …
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