Survival of the best fit: exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of U.S. manufacturing plants

By Andrew B. Bernard, J. B. Jensen, Peter K. Schott. 2003

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Changes Over Time in the Revenue-Expense Relation: Accounting or Economics? (2011, background): “For example, Bernard et al. (2006) report that import-related competition is negatively associated with plant survival and growth, suggesting an association between import competition and asset write-offs.”
Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s (2015, background): “…Our estimates, which identify the impact of growth in China’s imports based on the common component of the country’s export expansion across high-income markets, imply that had there been no increase in import pen29This figure comes from information provided in Table 2 of Bernard et al. (2006).”
Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment (2011, methodology): “To control for exposure to international competition, we use data on import penetration made available at the fourdigit ISIC level by Bernard et al. (2006).”
Does product market competition foster corporate social responsibility? Evidence from trade liberalization (2015, background): “This trend towards lower trade barriers has spurred a large literature that studies how foreign competition affects productivity (e.g., Bernard et al., 2006a), economic growth (e.g., Frankel and Romer, 1999), as well as social and environmental welfare (e.g., Edmonds and Pavcnik, 2005; Grossman and…”
Trade costs, firms and productivity (2006, background): “Another possibility is that the plant itself may be changing its product mix in response to falling trade costs, i.e., the type of intra-plant reallocation found by Bernard et al. (2006a).”
Industry Dynamics and Competition from Low-Wage Countries: Evidence on Italy (2014, unknown): “A similar specification is used by Khandelwal (2010) and, with firm-level data, by Bernard et al. (2006).”
New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018 (2022, background): “…competition from China generated a sizable negative demand shock for many labor-intensive domestic manufacturing industries in the U.S. (Autor et al., 2014; Bernard et al., 2006; Pierce and Schott, 2016).40 We use these industry-level demand shocks to identify shocks to occupational labor demand.”
International trade, the gender wage gap and female labor force participation (2014, background): “26 within plants (Schott 2003, Schott 2004, Bernard, Jensen, and Schott 2006).31 Thus, the goal of testing our theory should not be frustrated by the expected weak correlation displayed in Figure 4.”
The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration (2014, unknown): “In our aggregate analysis, we relate changes in key local labor market variables to measures of import and export exposure that reflect the local industry mix.”
The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2012, background): “However, similar patterns of productivity gains from the expansion of high-productivity exporting rms have been found in response to reductions in trade barriers in both Canada (Tre er, 2004) and the United States (Bernard et al. 2006a).”