The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

show that import competition is a major cause of job polarization. Import competition with China accounts for about 17% of …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … move out of manufacturing conditional on separation. These findings reveal that import shocks impose substantial labor …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … equilibrium channels-weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition …

We study the effect of import competition on workers' mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the … mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition … in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find an increase in import competition to have a positive, statistically …

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 …

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … data from 1987-2009, we find that import exposure increases the support of nationalist parties and causes labor market … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …