Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Peer-Reviewed Study · Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Brendan Price · May 2015

Acemoglu, Autor, Dorn, Hanson and Price: rising Chinese import competition cost 2.0 to 2.4 million U.S. jobs from 1999 to 2011.

Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million.

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Acemoglu, Autor, Dorn, Hanson and Price: rising Chinese import competition cost 2.0 to 2.4 million U.S. jobs from 1999 to 2011.