We examine the relationship between import competition from low wage countries and the reallocation of US manufacturing … from 1977 to 1997. Both employment and output growth are slower for plants that face higher levels of low wage import … surviving plants. Within industries, low wage import competition has the strongest effects on the least capital and skill …

labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … analysis of the effect of surging import competition on U.S. innovative activities. Applying a novel internet-based matching … adjustment and for all measures of valuation suggest that the primary response of firms to greater import competition is to scale …

understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the … local labor market level, consistent with local general equilibrium effects that amplify the impact of import competition …

interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show that import exposure to low-wage countries has adversely affected … Western labor markets. Similarly, they have been used to show that import exposure has increased voter polarization. However … framework, we estimate that labor market adjustments explain most to all of the effect of import exposure on voting, thereby …

We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small … find that a 0.01 increase in the import share leads to a 1.05% gain in technical efficiency. This elasticity translates … get from their "core" good and firms respond to competition by focusing more on their core products. Instrumenting import …