Pains or Gains-Effect of US-China Trade on US Local Labor Market

Feng Dai (IRLE Scholar)

My research is to conduct an in-depth and comprehensive survey on the traits, changes and major influencing factors of US local labor market from a historical perspective; to analyze the effects of US-China trade on the employment and wages in the US from the perspectives of import and export in services as well as manufacturing industries; and to shed light on the role of “made in China” in the unemployment and wage gap in the US and further get an integrated understanding of the US-China trade frictions.