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

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 co...

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Main Authors: Dorn, David (Author), Hanson, Gordon H. (Author), Acemoglu, K. Daron (Contributor), Autor, David H (Contributor), Price, Brendan Michael (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2016-12-28T14:56:58Z.
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