Browsing MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series by Author "Dorn, David"

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    • The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States 

      Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-05-02)
      We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization ...

    • Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence 

      Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-06-30)
      In the past two decades, China’s manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on ...