Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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 …

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 …

Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced … China, a substantial fraction of commuting zones appears to have suffered absolute declines in average real incomes …

from China. Although population headcounts of the foreign-born fell by more than those of the native-born in regions … exposed to the China trade shock, the overall contribution of immigration to labor market adjustment in this episode was small … industries that would later see increased import penetration from China. The foreign-born share of the working-age population in …