Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265847 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2022-071/VIII
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that domestic transport costs shield local labor markets from globalization. Using a shift-share design for industry-level Chinese imports across 42 ports of entry, we show that US job losses from competing imports occurred near the ports where they arrived. Once accounting for domestic transport costs, import competition affects coastal areas more than inland areas; shows larger impacts in housing markets and indirectly affected jobs; and explains voting, mortality and family formation
Subjects: 
import competition
local labor markets
trade infrastructure
China syndrome
transport costs
JEL: 
E24
F14
F16
R23
J23
J31
L60
O47
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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