We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising … import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …

services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience …

of Chinese import penetration at the firm level on wages within job-spells and over the longer term taking transitions in …-level demand shock, which is biased towards low-skill intensive products. Consistent with this, an increase in Chinese import …

indirectly affected by rising export demand. Furthermore, we examine potential impacts on specific worker groups, such as high …