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David Dorn

Professor of Economics, University of Zurich
Verified email at econ.uzh.ch
Cited by 26494

The China shock: Learning from labor-market adjustment to large changes in trade

DH Autor, D Dorn, GH Hanson - Annual review of economics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
… Table 1 documents the operation of the Autor-Dorn-Hanson instrumental-variables strategy.
The first column of the table shows that annual US imports from China increased by 304 …

Simulation games: One more tool on the pedagogical shelf

DS Dorn - Teaching Sociology, 1989 - JSTOR
This article presents an extensive review of the literature on simulation games for teaching
and learning, with a special emphasis on sociology. The key features of simulation gaming …

'Voluntary'and 'involuntary'early retirement: an international analysis

D Dorn, A Sousa-Poza - Applied Economics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Recent literature makes a distinction between ‘voluntary’ and ‘involuntary’ early retirement,
where ‘involuntary’ early retirement results from employment constraints rather than from a …

The growth of low-skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market

DH Autor, D Dorn - American economic review, 2013 - aeaweb.org
We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and
2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We hypothesize that …

The China syndrome: Local labor market effects of import competition in the United States

DH Autor, D Dorn, GH Hanson - American economic review, 2013 - aeaweb.org
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US
local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial …

The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

D Autor, D Dorn, LF Katz, C Patterson… - The Quarterly Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The fall of labor’s share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent
decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments …

Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s

D Acemoglu, D Autor, D Dorn… - Journal of Labor …, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000
and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the …

Importing political polarization? The electoral consequences of rising trade exposure

D Autor, D Dorn, G Hanson, K Majlesi - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
… In panels B to D of Table 2, we examine how greater trade exposure affects the market share
of individual cable-news channels. Consider the results for Fox News in panel B. In column …

Trade adjustment: Worker-level evidence

DH Autor, D Dorn, GH Hanson… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of US
workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition …

Untangling trade and technology: Evidence from local labour markets

DH Autor, D Dorn, GH Hanson - The Economic Journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in US local labour markets
between 1980 and 2007. Labour markets whose initial industry composition exposes them …