improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value …

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

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …