US exports and employment
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Feenstra, Robert C.; Ma, Hong; Xu, Yuan
署名单位：
University of California System; University of California Davis; Tsinghua University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-1996
DOI：
10.1016/j.jinteco.2019.05.002
发表日期：
2019
页码：
46-58
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摘要：
We study the employment responses to the expansion of US exports and to the import competition, especially from China. We find that although import competition reduces jobs, export expansion also creates a substantial number of jobs. At the industry level, job gains due to US export expansion largely offset job losses due to Chinese import competition, resulting in a net gain of 379 thousand jobs over 1991-2011 in our preferred estimate. At the commuting zone level, job gains and losses are roughly balanced, with a slight net loss of 68 thousand jobs and a substantial range around this preferred estimate depending on the specification. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.