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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Import competition and the great U.S. employment sag of the 2000s
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Daron Acemoglu
  • David Autor
  • David Dorn
  • Gordon H Hanson
  • Brendan Price
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich : UBS International Center of Economics in Society
Series Name UBS Center Working Paper Series
Number 13
ISSN 2296-2778
Number of Pages 42
Date 2015
Abstract Text Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and—through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium channels—weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million.
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Keywords Trade flows, labor demand