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 …

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 …

-product firms live forever, and the large firms invest in innovation in order to enlarge their product spans. All firms export. I …

We study unanticipated tariffs on imports of intermediate goods in a setting with firm-to-firm supply relationships … free trade. Once they are in place, the home government surprises with an input tariff. This can lead to renegotiation with … deterioration in the terms of trade. The welfare implications of a tariff are ambiguous in this second-best setting, but plausible …

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 …