Workers initially displaced by the China shock largely did not move up or out; 20 years later, many remain in relatively low-paid manufacturing or other low-paid work, while it is their children who never entered manufacturing—showing labor markets adjust across cohorts rather than mid-career.
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“the workers who were initially in those locations actually have not moved on”
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