Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U ….S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes …