While the influence of import competition on the decline of the manufacturing industry in the United States receives much attention in both the general press and academic literature, recent studies suggest that some firms are successful in establishing themselves domestically and immediately...

Recent decades have seen the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), in which production stages for individual goods are broken apart and scattered across countries. Stimulated by these developments, there has been rapid progress in data and methods for measuring GVC linkages. The macro...