show that import competition is a major cause of job polarization. Import competition with China accounts for about 17% of …

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 … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …

exploit the dismantling of import quotas on Chinese products with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-experiment and …

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 …

In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low …-2006 for US publicly-listed firms in the Compustat dataset. We find consistent evidence that Chinese import competition had a … instrument import competition in the US by using Chinese import penetration in the United Kingdom. Next we investigate this …

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure increases the support of nationalist parties and causes labor market … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …