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 …

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 … more trade-exposed labor markets. -- trade flows ; import competition ; local labor markets ; China …

China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it … unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences. Exposed workers experience …

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 …