We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for … heterogeneous activities within an industry, we show that trade in inputs has much the same impact on labor demand as does skill … the higher skilled. Thus, distinguishing whether the change in wages is due to international trade, or technological …

key testable implication is that the U.S. should import heavier goods from nearby countries, and lighter goods from … exporters for individual goods, distance from the US is associated with much higher import unit values. These effects are large …, which establishes that the model identifies an important influence on specialization and trade …

specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be produced near the source of final demand, where wages …

of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while …-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …

data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows …A recent literature has introduced heterogeneous firms into models of international trade. This literature has adopted … not hold in the data. We show how a standard heterogeneous-firm trade model can be amended to allow for only an integer …

International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows …, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated … information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find that policy can explain the majority of Britain's shift towards …

This paper studies how international trade influences U.S. presidential elections. We expect the positive employment … effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to … politically consequential. We also construct U.S. county-level measures of employment in high- and low-skill tradable activities …

and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer … international trade and the importance of foreign ownership for firms' export and import decisions …This paper uses newly available data on Chinese trade flows to establish novel and confirm existing stylized facts …