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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s
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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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“Industries more exposed to trade with China have seen higher exit of plants (Bernard, Jensen, and Schott 2006), larger contractions in employment (Pierce and Schott 2016; Acemoglu et al. 2016), and lower incomes for affected workers (Autor et al. 2014; Galle, Rodríguez-Clare, and Yi 2017; Caliendo, Dvorkin, and Parro 2019; Autor, Dorn, and Hanson 2019).”
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“We isolate the component of growth in US imports from China that is driven by export-supply growth in China, rather than US product-demand shocks, following the identification strategy in Autor et al. (2014) and Acemoglu et al. (2016).”
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Metadata
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- green
- www.zora.uzh.ch
- 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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