Costly Jobs: Trade-related Layoffs, Government Compensation, and Voting in U.S. Elections

By Yotam Margalit. American Political Science Review, 2011

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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Citations in the corpus

• Preferences for International Redistribution: The Divide over the Eurozone Bailouts: PREFERENCES FOR INTERNATIONAL REDISTRIBUTION (2014, unknown): “Economic openness can affect employment security and consequently influence individuals’ political preferences (Margalit 2011; Scheve and Slaughter 2004).”
• Populism in Place: The Economic Geography of the Globalization Backlash (2019, background): “The U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance program (TAA) – which provides temporary income support, job retraining, and relocation assistance for workers that lose their jobs due to trade and offshoring – moderates the negative impact of globalization on support for incumbent presidents (Margalit 2011).”
• Occupation and the Political Economy of Trade: Job Routineness, Offshorability, and Protectionist Sentiment (2017, unknown): “Mankiw and Swagel 2006; and Margalit 2011.”
• Fleeing the centre: the rise of challenger parties in the aftermath of the euro crisis (2016, background): “There is also increasing evidence that personal economic circumstances, such as declining wages, benefit cuts or unemployment, are important determinants of voting behaviour (Bechtel and Hainmueller 2011; Margalit 2011; Richter 2006).”
• Winners and Losers in International Trade: The Effects on US Presidential Voting (2017, background): “The risks that these workers will be displaced are lower than for their manufacturing low-skilled counterparts because their alternative employers pay similarly (that is, services have lower inter-industry wage differentials).”
• Explaining Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from the Great Recession (2013, background): “The first shock is job loss, which prior research indicates can affect political preferences (e.g., Margalit 2011).”
• The future of skills: employment in 2030 (2017, background): “• Emerging markets losing manufacturing cost advantage over developed economies domestic competition (Margalit, 2011).”