the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

We see industrialization in China the last 150 years as an ongoing process through which firms acquired and deepened … manufacturing capabilities. Two factors have been consistently important to this process: openness to the international economy and … seriously limit benefits. For a latecomer like China, modern industry initially finds its most success in more labor …

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 200,000 firms and 54 million workers per … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

We investigate the effect of rising labor costs on induced technological change in China's secondary industry. While …/environmental protection, there has been little evidence relating to China's adjustments as rising labor costs affect its global … competitiveness in the manufacturing sector. Building on insights developed in a rich literature, we propose a model linking changes …

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within …

The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … entrants and returnees from non-employment. We then investigate if rising trade with China and Eastern Europe causally affected …

manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship …

) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by implied efficiency effects. We use data from the manufacturing industry …