When Protectionism Kills Talent

https://www.nber.org/papers/w32466
ECONOMY
Issue #399
2 Jun 2024
It’s an axiom of the bring back manufacturing brigade that protectionism will operate as jobs programme as much as it does for national security. Fascinating paper which provides counterintuitive evidence that it paradoxically has the opposite effect. Academic but accessible with implications for staffing agencies, especially if you plan on servicing an expected need which may not actually be there. Have a read