This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …

We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US manufacturing employment has evolved across … technology-based explanations of the overall decline of employment over this period, while also highlighting the difficulties of …