import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

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 …

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising …

We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative … estimates suggest that import competition from China explains almost 10% of the reduction in the manufacturing employment share …

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 …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … to move out of manufacturing conditional on separation. These findings reveal that import shocks impose substantial labor …

' incentives to export. The results indicate that the export wage premium is due to exporting firms both (1) paying a wage premium … document that the export wage premium is larger for workers with more export-related experience. This indicates that the …

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively … skilled workers, consistent with trade theory, the magnitude of the effect was modest and more than offset by institutional …

manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsourcing affect wages as predicted by the theory. …