Park, Jooyoun; Reynolds, C.L.; Rohlin, Shawn M. - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 94-109
This paper investigates how layoffs due to import competition affect new and existing businesses at a highly local level. To conduct our analysis, we construct measures of import-related layoffs at the ZIP code level and combine these with ZIP code-level establishment counts. We find that...