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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million. …

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the … local labor market level, consistent with local general equilibrium effects that amplify the impact of import competition …

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Economic and Political Inequality in Development : The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic inequality has detrimental effects on economic growth in general, but also that differences in economic...

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...

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Productivity Differences between and within Countries

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and...

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Productivity Differences

Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2021

Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies, and as such are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Due to differences in the supply of skills, some of the tasks performed by skilled workers in the OECD economies will be...

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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then...

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Credit Market Imperfections and Persistent Unemployment

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

This paper develops the thesis that credit market frictions may be an important contributor to high unemployment in Europe. When a change in the technological regime necessitates the creation of new firms, this can happen relatively rapidly in the U.S. where credit markets function efficiently....

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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The Rise of Europe : Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A. - 2021

This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of European nations with access to the Atlantic, and especially by those nations that engaged in colonialism and long distance oceanic trade. Moreover, Atlantic ports grew much...

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