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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s

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Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Acemoglu, K. Daron; Autor, David H; Price, Brendan Michael
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Abstract
Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent reductions in US manufacturing employment and—through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium channels—weak overall US job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition over 1999–2011 in the range of 2.0–2.4 million.
Date issued
2015-12
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106156
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Journal
Journal of Labor Economics
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
Acemoglu, Daron et al. “Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s.” Journal of Labor Economics 34.S1 (2016): S141–S198. © 2015 by The University of Chicago
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0734-306X
1537-5307

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