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Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the U.S. 本地冲击和内部迁移:机器人和中国进口产品对美国的不同影响

Harvard Business School: Business Pub Date : 2021-07-31 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3517458

Marius Faber, Andrés Sarto, M. Tabellini

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