We examine the relationship between import competition from low wage countries and the reallocation of US manufacturing … from 1977 to 1997. Both employment and output growth are slower for plants that face higher levels of low wage import … surviving plants. Within industries, low wage import competition has the strongest effects on the least capital and skill …

In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low …-2006 for US publicly-listed firms in the Compustat dataset. We find consistent evidence that Chinese import competition had a … instrument import competition in the US by using Chinese import penetration in the United Kingdom. Next we investigate this …

In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low … import competition had an inverted-U effect on firm innovation, as measured by patent counts and citation-weighted patents …. Our result suggests that import penetration positively affects firm innovation when import penetration is less than 60 …

examine how low-wage country import competition in the U.S. influences the probability of manufacturing establishment closure …. These data are linked to measures of import competition built from individual trade transactions. Controlling for a variety … of plant and firm covariates, we show that low-wage import competition has played a significant role in manufacturing …