The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …

. 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 …