October 11th, 2020 
Please read the article attached, which is titled “The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade”, and please focus especially on sections 4 and 5.
Answer the questions
1. What made some regions and some workers more exposed to Chinese import competition after it joined the WTO? What do Autor, Dorn, and Hanson find happened to those workers and regions?
2. In Section 5, in what ways do the authors think their findings challenge traditional ways of assessing trade? Do their findings support the idea that labor a mobile factor in a specific factors or Hecksher-Ohlin framework? In what ways do they suggest labor might not be mobile in reality?
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