to work. Controlling for housing reduces the negative coefficient of import exposure on manufacturing employment by 20 …-25%, with a significant indirect magnification through the housing market. Combining manufacturing and construction employment …, the indirect effect of the China shock through the housing market explains one-fifth as much of the variance in employment …

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …

This paper studies how international trade influences U.S. presidential elections. We expect the positive employment … politically consequential. We also construct U.S. county-level measures of employment in high- and low-skill tradable activities …. We find increases in incumbent vote shares in counties with concentrations of employment in high-skilled tradable goods …

We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input …