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trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession …
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emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….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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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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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …
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. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. We find that exposure to Chinese imports led to short-run declines in …
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This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
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For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
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We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
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This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained from the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two...
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We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...
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