Faber, Marius; Sarto, Andrés P.; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the … migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …