IMPORT COMPETITION AND SKILL CONTENT IN U.S. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lu, Yi; Ng, Travis
• 署名单位: National University of Singapore; Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00311
• 发表日期: 2013-10
• 页码: 1404-1417
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; EMPLOYMENT; IMPACT; GLOBALIZATION; variables; outliers; QUALITY; TRADE; wages

摘要

Skill content varies enormously across industries and over time. This paper shows that import competition can explain a significant portion of the variation in various skill measures across manufacturing industries. Industries that face more intense import competition employ more nonroutine skill sets, including cognitive, interpersonal, and manual skills, and fewer cognitive routine skills. In addition, we find that the impact of import competition on skills is not driven by imports from low-wage countries or from China. A number of robustness checks also suggest that our results are unlikely to be driven by econometric problems.