TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Autor, David
AU  - Dorn, David
AU  - Hanson, Gordon H.
        TI  - The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
        PY  - 2013/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7150
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7150
        AB  - We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. 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 U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in more trade-exposed labor markets.
        KW  - import competition
KW  - trade flows
KW  - local labor markets
KW  - China
        ER  -