We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing … industries. In our main specification, import competition explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U …

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

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 … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being …

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

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 …

We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration … migrate to the US. In particular, we find that Chinese import competition reduces migrants' negative self-selection: the …. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across …

estimates suggest that import competition from China explains almost 10% of the reduction in the manufacturing employment share …We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative …

.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 …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. We find that exposure to Chinese imports led to short-run declines in …