The Effect of Low-Wage Import Competition on U.S. Inflationary Pressure

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The Globalisation of Inflation: The Growing Importance of Global Value Chains (2017, background): “For example, Auer and Fischer (2010), Hirakata et al (2014) and Bugamelli et al (2015) document substantial effects of final goods import competition from low wage countries, in particular, from China, on price dynamics in the United States and several other advanced economies.”
Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the U.S (2013, unknown): “…has translated into a more than tenfold increase in the share of US manufacturing expenditure on Chinese goods and there is evidence that this has contributed to declines in both U.S. prices (cf. Auer and Fischer, 2010) as well as manufacturing employment and local wages (cf. Autor et al., 2013).”