MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence 

      Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-06-30)
      In the past two decades, China’s manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on ...

    • The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview 

      Author, David H. (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-01-30)
      An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace “tasks” between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries ...

    • Envirodevonomics: A Research Agenda for a Young Field 

      Greenstone, Michael; Jack, B. Kelsey (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-09-03)
      Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low ...