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 ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind …

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

increasing import penetration, China's entry into the WTO, and growing US multinational employment abroad. We find significant …We suggest that the impact of globalization on wages has been missed because its effects must be captured by analyzing … other sectors and other occupations, with large declines in wages among workers who switch, explaining the large differences …

This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … Portuguese firms faced Chinese import competition, based on firm product mix and distribution of sales across countries. We find … economically and statistically significant employment declines in firms with more exposure to Chinese competition in European …

In the two decades straddling China's WTO accession, the China Shock, i.e. the rapid trade integration of China in the … about the extent of China Shock's repercussions in their district at the time when they voted on China's Normal Trade … U.S. House of Representatives on China's Normal Trade Relations status, we formally test what information politicians …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and …. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting … records, we find strong evidence that congressional districts exposed to larger increases in import penetration …

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 … instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases …

of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and …

and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign … in higher wages in locally-owned plants and overall. Higher foreign presence leads to higher wages in locally …-owned plants. Since the foreign plants also pay higher wages than locally-owned ones, the two factors together mean that higher …