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

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 hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Autor, David H., Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95952
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-9381