全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker-Level

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w22315
来源ID	Working Paper 22315
	International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker-Level
	Wolfgang Keller; Hâle Utar
发表日期	2016-06-06
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization– the decline in opportunities for mid-wage workers while those for high- and low-wage workers increase. With employer-employee matched data on virtually all workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we show that import competition has caused worker-level adjustments that lead to job polarization. When mid-wage workers adjust to the shock, highly educated and skilled workers end up in high-wage jobs whereas less educated workers end up in low-wage positions. We show that the specific tasks performed by a worker are central in determining trade’s impact, and workers performing manual tasks are the ones most affected regardless of how routine or non-routine these tasks are. Trade lets foreign workers compete against domestic workers, in contrast to technical progress which pits man versus machine country by country. Quantitatively, we find that job polarization through trade-induced worker adjustments is at least as strong as through technical change and offshoring.
主题	International Economics ; Trade ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w22315
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579987
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wolfgang Keller,Hâle Utar. International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker-Level. 2016.

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