International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
Keller W, Utar H (Unpublished) .
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Keller, Wolfgang;
Utar, HaleUniBi
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Job polarization is the shift of employment and earnings
from mid-level wage jobs to both high- and low-wage jobs. Using longitudinal
employee-employer matched data covering all residents and workplaces in
Denmark, we study the effect of international trade on job polarization as
trade barriers fell away with China's entry into the World Trade
Organization. We show that trade can explain the U-shaped pattern of
employment changes that is characteristic for job polarization.
For the large mid-level wage group of machine operators, already adversely by automatization and the introduction of robots, import competition leads to a loss of eight months of mid-wage employment, and increases of both low-wage and high-wage employment of about four months and one month respectively over a period of eight years.
Trade leads to job polarization mainly by shifting
workers from initially abundant manufacturing jobs to both high- and
low-paying services jobs. Trade leads to less job polarization for
women than for men even though women experience overall job polarization
more than men, a finding that we relate to the swiftness of the
reduction in labor demand caused by import competition. Furthermore, trade
has increased gender inequality by shifting women to a lesser extent into
high-wage jobs than men. We discuss a number of reasons that might be behind
these findings, as well as possible policy implications.
Stichworte
Import Competition;
China;
Job Polarization
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
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1-73
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2767003
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Keller W, Utar H. International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level.; Unpublished.
Keller, W., & Utar, H. (Unpublished). International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level, 1-73.
Keller, W., and Utar, H. (Unpublished). International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level.
Keller, W., & Utar, H., Unpublished. International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level,
W. Keller and H. Utar, International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level, Unpublished.
Keller, W., Utar, H.: International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level. (Unpublished).
Keller, Wolfgang, and Utar, Hale. International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level. Unpublished.
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