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employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the … flexible at the employment margin, while centralized wage bargaining provides less flexibility at the wage margin. Our … estimates suggest that import competition from China explains almost 10% of the reduction in the manufacturing employment share …
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.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in …
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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...
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With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that domestic transport costs shield local labor markets from globalization. Using a shift-share design for industry-level...
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employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the … flexible at the employment margin, while centralized wage bargaining provides less flexibility at the wage margin. Our … estimates suggest that import competition from China explains almost 10% of the reduction in the manufacturing employment share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010788973
The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past two decades has raised concerns for manufacturing employment in high … employment and total labor income in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing are negatively affected by rising exposure to …
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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers facilitates labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine immigration's role in enabling U.S. commuting zones to respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import...
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) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which … employment creation is higher in non-offshorable occupations. Furthermore, both hiring and job separation rates decline with … leaving employment to other labour market states is higher if their jobs are more offshorable. …
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modes of employment. We explore this econometrically and find that the earnings of workers displaced from formal to informal … accompanied by real earnings that were flat on average, and even declined for many workers. Conventional models of growth and … using several waves of a panel of individual employment data. Economic growth is rarely balanced in a sectoral sense, and …
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modes of employment. We explore this econometrically and find that the earnings of workers displaced from formal to informal … accompanied by real earnings that were flat on average, and even declined for many workers. Conventional models of growth and … using several waves of a panel of individual employment data. Economic growth is rarely balanced in a sectoral sense, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904493