The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal … analysis of the effect of surging import competition on U.S. innovative activities. Applying a novel internet-based matching …

various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

countries, where important operations were nationalized. Manufacturing is now the sector in which internationalized production … 1995. Outside of petroleum and manufacturing, internationalized production was of little importance. For the world as a …

labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union … certification elections by 4.5% among workers in manufacturing industries directly exposed to it, and by 8.8% among workers …

In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the … historic exchange rate appreciation. As is consistent with the interpretation that import penetration undermines regional input … absorbers, especially in industries with high import share growths. This paper also finds that local knowledge spillovers and …

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 … value of manufacturing output in Belgium. Firms appear to be less technically efficient at producing goods the further they …

the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U … recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and that, through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium …

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 … of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …

industry's imports of each input, relative to its total demand, is the same as the economy-wide imports relative to total … demand: this is the so-called "import comparability" or "proportionality" assumption. A report to the National Research … move beyond this assumption to obtain a direct measure of imported materials by industry for the United States in 1997. At …

got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …