.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …

We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration … for individual and municipality features, we find that individuals living in municipalities more exposed to Chinese import … migrate to the US. In particular, we find that Chinese import competition reduces migrants' negative self-selection: the …

. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial …

is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … to move out of manufacturing conditional on separation. These findings reveal that import shocks impose substantial labor …

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years … between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are … contributed by export starters of a cohort is tiny in the start year, and it remains so over the years to follow, although those …