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 …