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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world...
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
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impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …
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We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising … import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …
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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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control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
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