We examine how the rapid growth in imports of manufactured goods from China affected industry-level employment in … Australia from 1991 to 2006. Our analysis incorporates both the direct effect from increased import competition, and indirect … spill-over effects from input-output linkages. We estimate that growth in imports from China caused a loss in total …

We quantify the joint impact of the China shock and automation of labor, across US commuting zones (CZs). To this end … can be automated. Automation and increased import competition from China are both sector-specific; they lead to … worked, the employment rate and employment in manufacturing. The China shock contributes almost as much as automation to the …

competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …