Brendan M. Price

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent reductions in US manufacturing employment and weak overall US job growth and suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition over 1999-2011 in the range of 2.0-2.4 million.

TL;DR: This article explored the evidence for this view among the IT-using US manufacturing industries and found that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing, and that productivity increases, when detectable, result from even faster declines in employment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent reductions in US manufacturing employment and weak overall US job growth and suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition over 1999-2011 in the range of 2.0-2.4 million.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and weak overall job growth and suggest job losses from rising Chinese import competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the relationship between initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits and underlying employment and found that the cumulative volume of initial claims filed through the May reference week substantially exceeded realized reductions in payroll employment and likely contributed to the historically large discrepancy between consensus expectations of further April-to-May job losses and the strong job gains reflected in the May employment report.