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

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

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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...

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Main Authors: Autor, David, Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
Subjects:
Trade Flows, Import Compettition, Local Labor Markets, China
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71139

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