Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Understanding the Links between Increasing Foreign Competition and Domestic Employment and Job Loss -- 3 - Evidence from Earlier Studies -- 4 - Inside Manufacturing: Trends in International Trade, Employment and Job Loss -- 5 -...

With the steady growth of global value chains (GVCs), each country's trade now has a more complex relationship with the international division of labor. We decompose the employment effects of a country's trade into five components, specifically the labour content (1) in exports, (2) in imports,...