Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets
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Untangling Trade and Technology Evidence from Local Labour Markets.pdf
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Dorn, David
Hanson, Gordon H.
Autor, David H
Date Issued
May 2015
Journal
The Economic Journal
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Wiley Blackwell
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Autor, David H., David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson. “Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets.” The Economic Journal 125.584 (2015): 621–646.
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Abstract
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in US local labour markets between 1980 and 2007. Labour markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labour markets susceptible to computerisation due to specialisation in routine task-intensive activities instead experience occupational polarisation within manufacturing and non-manufacturing but do not experience a net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology appears to shift from automation of production activities in manufacturing towards computerisation of information-processing tasks in non-manufacturing.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12245
