ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF TRADE AND OFFSHORING ON AMERICAN WORKERS USING THE CURRENT POPULATION SURVEYS

ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF TRADE AND OFFSHORING ON AMERICAN WORKERS USING THE CURRENT POPULATION SURVEYS

We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys from 1984 to 2002. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with significant wage effects, while industry exposure has no significant impact. We present...

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Veröffentlicht in:The review of economics and statistics 2014-10, Vol.96 (4), p.581-595
Hauptverfasser: Ebenstein, Avraham, Harrison, Ann, McMillan, Margaret, Phillips, Shannon
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Economic theory
Employment
Estimation
Globalization
Impact analysis
Imports
International trade
Labor economics
Manufacturing industries
Occupations
Offshoring
Outsourcing
Productivity
Real wages
Studies
Trade
Trade and industrial education
U.S.A
Wages & salaries
Workers
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Zusammenfassung:We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys from 1984 to 2002. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with significant wage effects, while industry exposure has no significant impact. We present evidence that globalization has put downward pressure on worker wages through the reallocation of workers away from higher-wage manufacturing jobs into other sectors and other occupations. Using a panel of workers, we find that occupation switching due to trade led to real wage losses of 12 to 17 percentage points.
ISSN:0034-6535
1530-9142
DOI:10.1162/rest_a_00400