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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s

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Acemoglu, Daron, Autor, David, Dorn, David, Hanson, Gordon H., Price, Brendan·2016·Journal of Labor Economics
DOI 10.1086/682384
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Even before the Great Recession, US 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 US manufacturing employment and—through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium channels—weak overall US job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition over 1999–2011 in the range of 2.0–2.4 million.

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Authors
Acemoglu, D., Autor, D., Dorn, D., Hanson, G. H., & Price, B.
Affiliations
  • National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
  • University of Zurich (CH)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Labor Economics
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2016-01
Volume
34
Issue
S1
Pages
S141-S198
ISSN
  • 0734-306X (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5307
DOI
10.1086/682384
OpenAlex
W2162670720
Cited by
1,113
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 92 · 2025: 141 · 2024: 105 · 2023: 102 · 2022: 110 · 2021: 123 · 2020: 98 · 2019: 136 · 2018: 100 · 2017: 57 · 2016: 28
FWCI
198.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • Journal of Labor Economics (publishedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Econstor (Econstor) (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global trade and economics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Global Trade and Competitiveness
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Keywords
import competition, Chinese imports, manufacturing employment, job creation, job loss, input-output linkages, general equilibrium effects, US-China trade, Great Recession

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