The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

# The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States > OpenAlex Metadata Hub · https://openalex.org/W2097916756 ## Bibliographic - **DOI:** 10.1257/aer.103.6.2121 - **Year:** 2013 - **Citations:** 4352 - **Open Access:** Yes (bronze) - **License:** — - **Source:** https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/aer.103.6.2121 ## Authors - David Autor - David Dorn - Gordon Hanson ## Abstract We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for US imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing industries. In our main specification, import competition explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in US manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in more trade-exposed labor markets. (JEL E24, F14, F16, J23, J31, L60, O47, R12, R23) ## Keywords Economics, Unemployment, Competition (biology), China, Labour economics, Quarter (Canadian coin), Transfer payment, International economics, Market economy, Macroeconomics ## Concepts - Economics - Unemployment - Competition (biology) - China - Labour economics - Quarter (Canadian coin) - Transfer payment - International economics - Market economy - Macroeconomics - Political science - Welfare - History - Archaeology - Law - Ecology - Biology --- *Metadata only — full text not imported unless Open Access license permits.*

Bài “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States” được TradingBase chuyển thành Knowledge Product cho trader — không phải trang đọc abstract OpenAlex. Tóm lược học thuật (đã diễn giải): We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for US imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing industries. In our main specification, import competition explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in US manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in more trade-exposed labor markets. (JEL E24, F14, F16, J23, J31, L60, O47, R12, R23) Phần Trading Insights bên dưới nối nghiên cứu với Forex, vàng, USD, lãi suất và risk regime — để bạn đưa vào journal và playbook. Metadata DOI/OA chỉ là rail tham chiếu; nội dung chính là summary, takeaways và ứng dụng thị trường do Content Factory sinh.