Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

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 …

- similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock …We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more …

respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition from China. Although foreign-born population headcounts fell by …

considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment …

in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …

This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in … China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting … initial differences in industrial composition across prefectural cities and then link it with the employment status of …

manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share increase is both due to the rise in formal-enterprise employment … driven by the high productivity firms, and a fall in informal-enterprise employment. The labor reallocation is enabled by the … increased formal sector employment share by 3.7 percentage points, and aggregate labor productivity by 2.87%, between 2000 …