Gordon Hanson's Research Cited in The Economist
Better safety nets needed
02/22/2011
R.A.,
The Economist, Free exchange Blog
Right on the heels of my post on the gains from trade, Mike Konczal draws our attention to a new paper that sets out the balance between the gains and losses from openness in fine detail. David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson compare local labour markets with varying levels of exposure to Chinese manufacturing imports and draw some interesting conclusions about the impact of growth in trade with China on wages and unemployment.
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Gordon Hanson is the director of the Center on Pacific Economies and is a professor of economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior research fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.
