Trade and Job Loss in U.S. Manufacturing, 1979-94
Author : Lori Gladstein Kletzer
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Manufacturing industries
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Author : Lori Gladstein Kletzer
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Manufacturing industries
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Author : Robert C. Feenstra
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226239640
Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing debate among policymakers and economists. Two competing theories have emerged to explain this phenomenon, one focusing on international trade and labor market globalization as the driving force behind the devaluation of low-skill jobs, and the other focusing on the role of technological change as a catalyst for the escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more satisfying alternatives to the trade versus technology debate and to assess directly the specific impact of international trade on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the continued effects of technology and globalization on the labor market.
Author : Lori G. Kletzer
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881322965
In this study of the medium-term effects of trade displacement on American workers, Kletzer uses worker-level data from the US Displaced Worker Surveys to examine the pattern of reemployment following trade-related job loss. She also analyzes regional and local labor market variations, and concludes by exploring the implications of her findings for US policy on linking the labor market and international trade.
Author : Robert E. Scott
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign trade and employment
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Author : U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Balance of trade
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"Report of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, November 14, 2000"--Cover p. [2].
Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691201005
An updated look at global trade and why it remains as controversial as ever Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of the policy agenda. Critics contend that free trade brings economic pain, including plant closings and worker layoffs, and that trade agreements serve corporate interests, undercut domestic environmental regulations, and erode national sovereignty. Why are global trade and agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? In Free Trade under Fire, Douglas Irwin sweeps aside the misconceptions that run rampant in the debate over trade and gives readers a clear understanding of the issues involved. In its fifth edition, the book has been updated to address the sweeping new policy developments under the Trump administration and the latest research on the impact of trade.
Author : Robert Z. Aliber
Publisher :
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :
U.S. manufacturing employment has declined from a peak of nearly twenty million in 1979 to less than thirteen million in 2018. The U.S. trade deficit has increased by $600 billion, about 3 percent of U.S. GDP, since 1980. The first question analyzed in this paper is how much of the decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs since 1980 can be attributed to the increase in the U.S. trade deficit? Economists and analysts agree that the changes in the trade balance of a country reflect changes in the relationship between its domestic saving and its investment and fiscal deficit. The conventional view is that the U.S. international investment position evolved from the world's largest creditor in 1980 to the world's largest debtor in 1990 because of the increase in U.S. profligacy, including the surge in the U.S. fiscal deficit because of the two supply-side-inspired tax cuts during the Reagan presidency and the increase in defense expenditures. The competing view is that the saving in many of the major U.S. trading partners has been large relative to the domestic investment spending, and that some of the excess savings have flowed to the United States, which has led to a higher price for the U.S. dollar and a larger U.S. trade deficit. It is difficult to identify a country that believes its trade and current account surpluses are too large. The U.S. trade balance is the mirror of the trade balances of all other countries as a group. The United States developed a trade deficit because China, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and numerous other countries developed trade surpluses that at times were larger than 5 percent of their GDPs.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Lori G. Kletzer
Publisher : W. E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Annotation Kletzer attempts to heighten our understanding of the labor market costs of freer trade. While economy-wide net benefits may ensue from lossening trade policies, such policies do not proclude localized net losses. This book aims to measure some of these losses in the hope that future policy making will address them and the people who bear the burdon.
Author : Justin R. Pierce
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Balance of trade
ISBN :
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment after 2001 and the elimination of trade policy uncertainty resulting from the U.S. granting of permanent normal trade relations to China in late 2000. We find that industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience greater employment loss due to suppressed job creation, exaggerated job destruction and a substitution away from low-skill workers. We show that these policy-related employment losses coincide with a relative acceleration of U.S. imports from China, the number of U.S. firms importing from China, the number of Chinese firms exporting to the U.S., and the number of U.S.-China importer-exporter pairs.