The recent backlash against free trade is partially motivated by the decline in manufacturing employment due to rising … economies from rising Chinese imports. In this paper, I estimate the causal effect of trade protection on imports and employment … growth rate of employment in protected industries by 0.07 percentage points. These results show that protectionist …

employment during the same period; and (iii) the recent trade war generated welfare losses, had small employment effects, and was …

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. …

higher import and consumer prices, lower investment, and slower real wage and GDP growth. However, at the aggregate level …

on U.S. employment and household median income), plus the possible political influences: the Belt – and – Road Initiative …