In a stylized model, firms differentiate their products to escape import com- petition. Facing a nested CES demand … an inverted U-shaped function of firm productivity. It increases with import competition and is lower than the social … benefit. Differentiation increases the gains from trade. In establishment data from China spanning its 2001 WTO accession …

communication technology (ICT) investment data in the employment share regression. We find that while import competition from China …This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition … from China experience greater skill upgrading by increasing demand for skilled workers. Using an industry panel dataset …

holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more …

Exploiting variation in exposure to Chinese import growth across U.S. local markets, I investigate the effects of … import competition on self-employment between 1990 and 2014. I find Chinese import competition had negative effects on self …-employment during the 1990s. However, the negative effects disappear after 2000. Indeed, Chinese import growth did not have any …

This paper documents the effects of increased import competition from China on the Italian labour market. In line with … markets and manufacturing workers. Our analysis shows that Italy’s local labour markets, which were more exposed to Chinese …