@techreport{NBERw5473, title = "Domestic Distortions and the Deindustrialization Hypothesis", author = "Paul Krugman", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "5473", year = "1996", month = "March", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w5473", abstract = {It is widely believed that U.S. trade deficits have displaced workers from highly paid manufacturing jobs into less well-paid service employment, contributing to declining incomes for the nation as a whole. Although proponents of this view do not usually think of it this way, this analysis falls squarely into the `domestic distortions' framework pioneered by Jagdish Bhagwati. This paper models the deindustrialization hypothesis explicitly as a domestic distortions issue, and shows that while it makes conceptual sense it is of limited quantitative importance.}, }