care about their relative wages, and show that the presence of a relative wage concern could help generation a positive …

-shaped pattern in worker-level wages surrounding the time their employer is acquired by a foreign firm, with a dip in earnings … explain why prior evidence found no impact of foreign ownership on worker-level wages. Accounting for the pre …

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

. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find that import …

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 …