Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period … in more trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import … and the native-born 25-39 years old, implying that exit from work is a primary means of adjustment to trade …

or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …, profitability, and R&D expenditure all decline within trade-exposed firms. The trade-induced contraction along all margins of …

is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and that commences prior to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election …. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting … disproportionately removed moderate representatives from office in the 2000s. Trade-exposed districts with an initial majority white …

In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged … measures of trade exposure, reveal that there are significant worker-level adjustment costs to import shocks, and that …

instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases …

China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it … has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the … heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts …

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …

.S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind …

exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … regions with high trade exposure was only three-fifths that in regions with low exposure. Immigration thus appears more likely …