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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … competition implies a reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the … employment rate. Reductions in population headcounts, which indicate net out-migration, register only for foreign-born workers …
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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2013
This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...
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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2012
-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …
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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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