TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers using the Current Population Surveys
AU - Ebenstein, Avraham
AU - Harrison, Ann
AU - McMillan, Margaret
AU - Phillips, Shannon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1162/REST_a_00400
DO - 10.1162/REST_a_00400
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AN - SCOPUS:84907208924
SN - 0034-6535
VL - 96
SP - 581
EP - 595
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
IS - 4
ER -