emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….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 …

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 …

holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …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 …

neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …

Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to …

In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …

This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors – state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture – and China's unique household registration …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China Household Ethnicity Survey, are ideal for examining the … beyond education, the strongest predictors of labor force participation for China's rural elders are age, disability …

This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …