emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….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 …

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 … to 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 …

technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in China. We exploit regional variations in capital goods import exposure …China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short …-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced …

recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic … waste and the recent import ban. Combining data on plastic waste imports with PM2.5 data at the city level for the years …

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 …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …

decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have … of Chinese import penetration at the firm level on wages within job-spells and over the longer term taking transitions in …-level demand shock, which is biased towards low-skill intensive products. Consistent with this, an increase in Chinese import …

recent years due to Chinese import competition did not require strong English-speaking skills while many of the jobs in …, we find that a $1,000 increase in import exposure per worker in a local area led to an increase in the share of low …