Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers using the Current Population Surveys

Avraham Ebenstein; Ann Harrison; Margaret McMillan; Shannon Phillips

doi:10.1162/REST_a_00400

Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers using the Current Population Surveys

Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan, Shannon Phillips

Department of Environmental Economics and Management

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	581-595
Number of pages	15
Journal	Review of Economics and Statistics
Volume	96
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00400
State	Published - 1 Oct 2014

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