In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by …

. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …

understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …