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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David H. - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106658
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2016
The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978100
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2013
In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078867
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H. - 2016
. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982947
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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 ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …
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