DAVID DORN

January 2025

CONTACT INFORMATION
University of Zurich, Dept. of Economics, Schoenberggasse 1, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Email: david.dorn@econ.uzh.ch • Web: http://www.ddorn.net

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Zurich
2021– Director, University Research Priority Program "Equality of Opportunity"
2019– UBS Foundation Professor of Globalization and Labor Markets, Department of Economics
2014–19 Affiliated Professor, UBS Center for Economics in Society
2014–19 Professor for International Trade and Labor Markets, Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
2025 Goh Keng Swee Visiting Professor, Department of Economics
University of California at Berkeley
2023 Visiting Professor, Haas School of Business
CEMFI Madrid
2013–16 Associate Professor of Economics (on leave 2014-2016)
2009–13 Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvard University
2013 Visiting Professor, Department of Economics
Boston University
2008–09 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2007–08 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics
University of Chicago
2007 Visiting Scholar, Harris School of Public Policy Studies

EDUCATION
University of St. Gallen
2009 Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. oec.)
2004 M.Sc. in Economics (lic. oec. HSG)
2004 M.Sc. in International Management (CEMS-MIM)
Swiss National Bank Study Center Gerzensee
2006 Swiss Program for Doctoral Students in Economics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2004 Exchange Student, MBA Program
ESADE Barcelona
2002 Exchange Student, lic/MBA Program
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

2024– Fellow, Econometric Society
2023 Hermann Heinrich Gossen Prize, Verein für Socialpolitik
2023– Fellow, European Economic Association
2023– Council Member, European Economic Association
2023– Research Affiliate, Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, MIT
2020–23 Evaluation Panel Member, European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants
2020–24 5 x Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
2020–21 Member of the Swiss National Covid-19 Science Taskforce
2015–19 Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Economics Studies
2015–18 Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association
2015–17 3 x Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review
2015– Research Fellow (Affiliate 2014-15), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
2014 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
2014– Research Fellow, Center for Economic Studies/ifo Institute (CESifo)
2011– Research Fellow (Affiliate 2008-11), Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

RESEARCH GRANTS
2021–28 University of Zurich, Research Priority Program "Equality of Opportunity"
2020–22 Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Project Grant "Domestic Outsourcing in the
United States"
2015–21 Swiss National Science Foundation, ERC Temporary Backup Scheme Starting Grant "Trade,
Innovation and Labor Markets"
2015–18 Swiss National Science Foundation, Sinergia Grant "Inequality and Globalization: Demand
versus Supply Forces and Local Outcomes"
2015–17 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Ramon y Cajal Fellowship "Trade, Technology
and Labor Markets" (declined)
2014–16 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Project Grant "Skills in Space"
2012–15 Russell Sage Foundation, Project Grant "The Impact of Adverse Employment Shocks on
Risky Behaviors and Electoral Outcomes"
2012–14 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Juan de la Cierva Fellowship "The Effects of
Technology and Trade Shocks on Local Labor Markets"
2007-08 Swiss National Science Foundation, Mobility Fellowship "Job Polarization in the Labor
Market"
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PUBLICATIONS
"Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock"
ILR Review, 78(1): 10-36, 2025 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"Labour Market Impacts of the China Shock: Why the Tide of Globalisation Did Not Lift All Boats"
Labour Economics, 91, article 102629, 2024 (with Peter Levell)
"Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US" [Chapter of the IFS Deaton Review on Inequalities]
Oxford Open Economics, 3: i1042-i1068, 2024 (with Peter Levell)
"On the Persistence of the China Shock"
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall, 381-476, 2021 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 35(2): 49-76, 2021 (with Josef Zweimüller)
"Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents"
American Economic Review: Insights, 2(3): 357-374, 2020 (with David Autor, Gordon Hanson, Gary
Pisano and Pian Shu)
"Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure"
American Economic Review, 110(10): 3139-3183, 2020 (with David Autor, Gordon Hanson and
Kaveh Majlesi)
"The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(2): 645-709, 2020 (with David Autor, Lawrence Katz, Christina
Patterson and John Van Reenen)
"When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men"
American Economic Review: Insights, 2(1): 161-178, 2019 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share"
American Economic Review, P&P, 107(5): 180-185, 2017 (with David Autor, Lawrence Katz,
Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen)
"The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade"
Annual Review of Economics, 8: 205-240, 2016 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s"
Journal of Labor Economics, 34(S1): S141-S198, 2016 (with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Gordon
Hanson and Brendan Price)
"Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets"
Economic Journal, 125(584): 621-646, 2015 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4): 1799-1860, 2014 (with David Autor, Gordon Hanson and
Jae Song)
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"Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing"
American Economic Review, P&P, 104(5): 394-399, 2014 (with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor,
Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price)
"The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the U.S."
American Economic Review, 103(6): 2121-2168, 2013 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market"
American Economic Review, 103(5): 1553-1597, 2013 (with David Autor)
"The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States"
American Economic Review, P&P, 103(3): 220-225, 2013 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"‘Voluntary’ and ‘Involuntary’ Early Retirement: An International Analysis"
Applied Economics, 42(4): 427-438, 2010 (with Alfonso Sousa-Poza)
"This Job Is ‘Getting Old:’ Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure"
American Economic Review, P&P, 99(2): 45-51, 2009 (with David Autor)
"Direct Democracy and Life Satisfaction Revisited: New Evidence for Switzerland"
Journal of Happiness Studies, 9(2): 227-251, 2008 (with Justina Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner and
Alfonso Sousa-Poza)
"Is It Culture or Democracy? The Impact of Democracy and Culture on Happiness"
Social Indicators Research, 82(3): 505-526, 2007 (with Justina Fischer, Gebhard Kirchgässner and
Alfonso Sousa-Poza)
"The Determinants of Early Retirement in Switzerland"
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 141(2): 247-283, 2005 (with Alfonso Sousa-Poza)
"Why is the Employment Rate of Older Swiss so High? An Institutional Analysis"
Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 28: 652-674, 2003 (with Alfonso Sousa-Poza)

SELECTED OTHER WRITINGS IN ENGLISH

"Changing Views on Trade’s Impact on Inequality in Wealthy Countries"
VoxEU, February 14, 2022 (with Peter Levell)
"Import Competition and Public Attitudes towards Trade"
IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, September 11, 2020 (with Alex Davenport and Peter Levell)
"How to Repay the Government Debt Resulting from the Coivd-19 Crisis?"
Swiss National Covid-19 Task Force Policy Brief, May 21, 2020 (with NCS-TF)
"Contact Tracing Costs"
Swiss National Covid-19 Task Force Policy Brief, April 26, 2020 (with Jan-Egbert Sturm, NCS-TF)
"Understanding Regional Export Growth in China", in: World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity
and Employment (Lili Yan Ing and Miaojie Yu, eds.), Routledge 2018 (with David Autor, Gordon
Hanson and Lei Li).
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"Commentary: The Impact of Trade on Inequality in Developed Countries"

Proceedings of the Jackson Hole Symposium, 115-128, 2017
"Competition from China Reduced Innovation in the U.S."
VoxEU, March 20, 2017 (with David Autor, Gordon Hanson, Gary Pisano and Pian Shu)
"The Rise of the Machines. How Computers Have Changed Work"
UBS Center Public Papers, no. 4, December 2015.
"Why Obama’s Key Trade Deal with Asia Would Actually be Good for American Workers"
Washington Post, March 12, 2015 (with David Autor and Gordon Hanson)
"The Rise of China and the Future of U.S. Manufacturing"
VoxEU, September 28, 2014 (with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Gordon Hanson and B. Price)
"How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class"
New York Times, August 25, 2013 (with David Autor)

PUBLIC LECTURES (SINCE 2013)

2024 Forum for Economic Dialogue, UBS Center for Economics in Society, Zurich
Keio University, Tokyo
Urban Economic Association Summer School, Geneva
2023 Singapore Management University, Singapore
2022 IFS Deaton Review on Inequalities, London (online)
2020 Forum for Economic Dialogue, UBS Center for Economics in Society, Zurich
2019 Tag der Wirtschaft, Economiesuisse, Zurich
2018 Forum for Economic Dialogue, UBS Center for Economics in Society, Zurich
Festival of Economics, Trento
2017 Austrian National Bank Global Economy Lecture, Vienna
2016 WTO Trade Dialogues Lecture, Geneva
Inaugural Lecture Professorship for International Trade and Labor Markets, Zurich
2014 Sciences Po Lecture of the Chaire Securisation des Parcours Professionnels, Paris
2013 United Nations ILO Symposium on the Future of Work, Geneva
NHH Policy Conference on Competition in Labor Markets, Oslo
Münchner Kreis Conference on the Future of Labor, Munich

ACADEMIC TALKS (SINCE 2013)

2024 Paris-Dauphine University, University of Tokyo, Forum for a New Economy (Berlin), VfS
(Berlin), MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative (online), European Bank of Reconstruction
and Development, ifo Institute
2023 Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley (Labor Seminar), Singapore
Management University, University of California at Berkeley (Trade Seminar), University of
Southern California, Northwestern University, University of Maastricht, Handbook of Labor
Economics Conference (Berlin), AASLE (Taipei)
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2022 University of Mannheim, Paris School of Economics, Econometric Society Asian Meeting
(online)
2021 Insead, University of California at Berkeley, University of Warwick, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, University of Vienna, IEA World Congress (all online), University of Hohenheim,
CERGE-EI Prague, University of Tübingen
2020 CEPR/Bank of Italy Workshop on Labor Economics (online Keynote)
2019 Trinity College Dublin, CEMFI Madrid, University of Essex, Peking University, Tsinghua
University, University of Michigan, UCLA, University of California at Santa Barbara, European
University Institute, AEA (Atlanta), University of Zurich Urban Economics Conference
2018 Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Basel, University of Nottingham, London School
of Economics, Paris School of Economics, University of Cologne, Cornell University, University
of Notre Dame, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Stockholm University,
University of Groningen, Northwestern University Workshop on Globalization, CEPR-EBRD
Conference on Economics of Transition (London, Keynote), Banque de France/Bundesbank
Conference on Monetary Policy (Paris), Fed Atlanta Employment Conference
2017 CSEF-University of Napoli, Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance, Bocconi University,
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Edinburgh, National
University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, University of Oslo, Yale University, Columbia University, U.S. Census Bureau,
University of Milan Trade and Labor Workshop, NYU Conference on the Future of Inequality,
University of Zurich Symposium in Honor of Janet Currie, CEPR ERWIT (Valencia), IEA World
Congress (Mexico City, Invited Lecture), ILO/HEI Workshop on Job Creation and Growth
(Geneva), NBER Summer Institute-Labor Studies (Cambridge), ifo Conference on Economic
Uncertainty and the Family (Munich, Keynote), IFS-CEP Conference on Wages, Labour Market
Policy and the Safety Net (London)
2016 Central European University, Queen Mary University London, University of Bern, Stanford
University, University of California at Davis, University of Chile, University of Toulouse,
Cambridge University, University of Chicago Booth School, University of California at
Berkeley, University of Munich, AEA (San Francisco), SOLE (Seattle), University of Warwick
Conference on Education, Innovation and Growth (Venice), EEA-ESEM (Geneva)
2015 European University Institute, IZA-Institute for the Study of Labor, Autonomous University of
Barcelona, University of St. Gallen, New Economic School, Kiel Institute for the World
Economy, University of Mannheim, University of North Carolina, ASSA (Boston), Princeton
University JRPCC Conference on Inequality and Long-Run Growth (Princeton), Korea Labor
Institute Conference on Social Safety Net and Active Labor Market Policies (Seoul, Keynote),
CEPR ERWIT (Paris), VfS Regional Economics Meeting (Dresden), Duke University
International Trade Workshop (Durham)
2014 Oxford University, ETH Zurich, CESifo Munich, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, CREST Paris,
University of Maryland, UCLA Anderson School, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, CREI
Barcelona, Bocconi University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Lund University, Aalto
University, ASSA (Philadelphia), Economic Geography and International Trade Workshop
(Munich, Keynote), ZEW/IAB Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of the Labor Market
(Nuremberg, Keynote), SOLE (Arlington), Nordic International Trade Conference (Stockholm,
Keynote), CEPR ERWIT (Oslo)
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2013 Harvard University (Trade Seminar), University of Texas, University College London, Harvard
University (Labor/Public Seminar), Boston University, Brown University, Harvard University
Kennedy School, University of Chicago Harris School, Sciences Po, INSEAD, University of
Zurich, NHH Bergen, ASSA (San Diego), Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting
(San Diego), RES (London), SOLE (Boston), UZH-ETH-HSG Workshop on Trade and
Inequality (Diessenhofen), SAEe (Santander), SEA (St. Gallen)

SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE OF RESEARCH (SINCE 2013)

2024 New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Neue
Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, SRF Swiss TV
2023 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NZZ am Sonntag, Tages-Anzeiger, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung
2022 New York Times, Washington Post, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Monde, SRF Swiss Radio
2021 New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, SRF Swiss TV
2020 Financial Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, Tages-
Anzeiger, Sonntagszeitung, Le Monde, El Pais, SRF Swiss TV, SRF Swiss Radio
2019 New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, Bloomberg, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ am
Sonntag, Tages-Anzeiger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Monde, SRF Swiss TV, SRF
Swiss Radio
2018 New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times,
Bloomberg, Reuters, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, Tages-Anzeiger, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, SRF Swiss TV
2017 New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, The
Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, Tages-Anzeiger,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Monde, La Vanguardia, SRF Swiss TV
2016 New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, The
Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters, BBC, NZZ am Sonntag, Tages-Anzeiger, Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Spiegel, La Vanguardia, SRF Swiss TV
2015 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, Bloomberg
2014 New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Le Monde
2013 New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Globe and Mail,
Bloomberg, Reuters