dc.contributor.author | Autor, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Dorn, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Hanson, Gordon | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-13T21:45:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-13T21:45:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05-02 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71139 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 while instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases unemployment, lowers labor force participation, and reduces wages in local labor markets. Conservatively, it explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in exposed labor markets. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working paper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics;12-12 | |
dc.rights | An error occurred on the license name. | en |
dc.rights.uri | An error occurred getting the license - uri. | en |
dc.subject | Trade Flows, Import Compettition, Local Labor Markets, China | en_US |
dc.title | The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |