dc.contributor.author | Autor, David H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dorn, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Hanson, Gordon H. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-11T17:45:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-03-11T17:45:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-10 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-8282 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1944-7981 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95952 | |
dc.description.abstract | We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets, exploiting cross- market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for US imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing industries. In our main specification, import competition explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in US manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in more trade-exposed labor markets. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (SES-0239538) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | American Economic Association | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.6.2121 | en_US |
dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
dc.source | American Economic Association | en_US |
dc.title | The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Autor, David H, David Dorn, and Gordon H Hanson. “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States.” American Economic Review 103, no. 6 (October 2013): 2121–2168. © 2013 American Economic Association | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Autor, David H. | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | American Economic Review | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-9381 | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |