• DOI:10.1257/AER.103.6.2121
Corpus ID: 2498232

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

@article{Autor2012TheCS,
  title={The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States},
  author={David H. Autor and D. Dorn and G. Hanson},
  journal={NBER Working Paper Series},
  year={2012}
}

David H. Autor, D. Dorn, G. Hanson

Published 2012

Economics

NBER Working Paper Series

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… CONTINUE READING

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