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

Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price ()
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Brendan Price: MIT

No 9068, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: trade flows; labor demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2015-05
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Forthcoming - published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (S1), S141-S198

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