The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the … factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To contribute to this effort, we use data from the … 2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms, conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, to estimate the …

equilibrium channels - weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets … instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher …

of Chinese import penetration at the firm level on wages within job-spells and over the longer term taking transitions in … the labor market into account. We find that greater exposure to Chinese imports corresponds to a negative firm …-level demand shock, which is biased towards low-skill intensive products. Consistent with this, an increase in Chinese import …

manufacturing since the late 1990s - Chinese import competition and the introduction of industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly … population size, while Chinese imports did not. We rationalize these results in two steps. First, we provide evidence that … negative employment spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, are an important mechanism …