US exports and employment

By Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, Yuanbin Xu. Journal of International Economics, 2019

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United States, both of which have been expanding strongly during the past decades. We find that although Chinese imports reduce jobs, at both the industry level and the local commuting zone level, the global export expansion of US products also creates a considerable number of jobs. On balance over the entire 1991-2007 period, job gains due to changes in US global exports were slightly less than job losses due to Chinese imports. Using data at both the industry level and the commuting zone level, we find a net loss of around 0.2-0.3 million jobs. When we extend the analysis to 1991-2011, we find the net job effect of import and export exposure is roughly balanced at the commuting zone level.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7b507c48fcb4efb098b69a66100d6ffe8d8b7a77

Citations in the corpus

• Trade, pollution and mortality in China (2016, unknown): “In the cross-section Forslid et al. (2018) find that exporters tend to have lower emission intensities, while Cherniwchan (2017) finds lower emissions as firms are exposed to tariffs cuts in the output market. Interestingly, Barrows and Ollivier (2018) find that this effect is solely due to a change”