emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … a large growth of net imports from China (such as the UK and the US), than in countries that maintained relatively …

economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …