Exporting Jobs?: The Impact of Import Competition on Employment and Wages in U. S. Manufacturing

Revenga, Ana

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“…Namely, they found that the appreciation of the dollar in the first half of the 80s had a strong negative effect on employment. A similar result was found by Revenga (1992), for the period 1977-1987, who concluded that real exchange rate movements had sizable effects on employment and a smaller, but significant, effect on US manufacturing wages. Burgess and Knetter (1998) evaluated the impact of real exchange rate movements on employment at the industry level for the G-7 countries and showed that real appreciations were associated with declines in manufacturing employment in most cases.…”

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Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology

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Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. We show that both the degree of openness and the technology level mediate the impact of exchange rate movements on labour market developments. According to our estimations, whereas employment in hightechnology sectors seems to be relatively immune to changes in real exchange rates, these appear to have sizable and significant effects on highly open low-technology sectors. The analysis of job flows suggests that the impact of exchange rates on these sectors occurs through employment destruction.

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“…For all firms in the sample, the database provides comprehensive company accounts, including the full time equivalent number of employees, on a yearly basis. On average, firms in the sample account for 66 % of total 6 See Branson and Love (1988) and Revenga (1992) for the US, and Burgess and Knetter (1998) for a broader set of countries. 7 Such an evolution is consistent with the recent development of trade models with heterogeneous firms (Melitz 2003;Bernard et al 2003, to quote the earliest contributions).…”

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Trade openness, real exchange rates and job reallocation: evidence from Belgium

Colantone

2012

Rev World Econ

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This paper investigates the impact of real exchange rate movements on job reallocation at the industry level. The analysis focuses on the manufacturing sector of Belgium, using data for 82 NACE 3-digit industries, over the time span 1996-2002. I find that real exchange rate changes do have a significant impact on job flows, and that this impact is magnified by increasing levels of trade exposure. In particular, a real appreciation is found to lower net employment growth through higher job destruction, while job creation is not significantly affected. These results are in line with previous empirical evidence on the United States, and differ from earlier findings for France and Germany, where the adjustment to real exchange rate shocks has been found to occur mainly through the job creation margin. I suggest that these differences may be explained by the fact that Belgium is a small open economy.

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“…Grossman (1987) e Larre (1995) encontram baixa elasticidade dos salários e elevada elasticidade do empregoàs medidas de abertura (tarifas e penetração de importações, respectivamente). Freeman e Katz (1991), Revenga (1992) e Gaston e Trefler (1993) encontraram efeitos significativos do aumento das importações e redução da proteção nominal tanto na alocação do emprego como nos salários relativos.…”

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“…A estratégia metodológica adotada permite que eventuais mudanças induzidas pela liberalização comercial sobre a composição da qualificação da mão-de-obra sejam diretamente consideradas nas estimações evitando, assim, os potenciais viéses e endogeneidades normalmente encontrados em artigos dessa literatura (ver, por exemplo, Larre (1995); Revenga (1992Revenga ( , 1997; Currie e Harrison (1997), inter alia).…”

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Liberalização comercial e estruturas de emprego e salário

Arbache¹,

Corseuil²

2004

Rev. Bras. Econ.

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Este artigo investiga se a liberalização comercial introduzida no Brasil em fins da década de 1980 afetou as estruturas de emprego e salários. Analisaram-se os dados da indústria manufatureira entre 1987 e 1998, período pré e pós-abertura, e encontraram-se evidências de que tanto a diminuição das tarifas de importação como o aumento dos fluxos comerciais pouco mudaram a participação relativa do emprego e os prêmios salariais inter-industriais. Mostra-se que esses resultados estão associados à elevadíssima estabilidade das estruturas de emprego e salários no Brasil.
This article investigates whether the trade liberalization introduced in Brazil by the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s affected the structure of employment and wages. We use manufacturing sector data from 1987 to 1998 and found evidence that neither the decrease of import tariffs nor the higher trade flow affected the employment shares and inter-industry wage premia. We show that these results are due to the very high stability of employment shares and relative wages

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Exporting Jobs?: The Impact of Import Competition on Employment and Wages in U. S. Manufacturing

Cited by 528 publications

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Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology

Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology

Trade openness, real exchange rates and job reallocation: evidence from Belgium

Liberalização comercial e estruturas de emprego e salário

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