We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input … gain due to merchandise exports was 3.7 million jobs. In comparison, U.S. merchandise imports from China led to reduced … total job losses of 2.0 million. It follows that the expansion in U.S. merchandise exports to the world relative to imports …

The 'China shock' operated in part through the housing market, and that is an important reason why the China shock was … as big as it was. If housing prices had not responded at all to the China shock, then the total employment effect of the … China shock would have been reduced by more than one-half. Housing prices in the United States did respond to the China …

The ‘China shock’ operated in part through the housing market, which is one reason why its impact was so large on U … to work. Controlling for housing reduces the negative coefficient of import exposure on manufacturing employment by 20 …, the indirect effect of the China shock through the housing market explains one-fifth as much of the variance in employment …

The ‘China shock’ operated in part through the housing market, which is one reason why its impact was so large in the … to work. Controlling for housing reduces the negative coefficient of import exposure on manufacturing employment by 20 …, the indirect effect of the China shock through the housing market explains one-fifth as much of the variance in employment …

This study uses input-output labor-accounting to estimate the impact of rising imports from China on US employment. Our … counterfactual analysis incorporates offsets from substitution for imports from other countries, increased US exports to China and … other countries, and job gains in downstream sectors using imported inputs. We find that from 2000 to 2016, the China shock …