The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

No 7326, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in part to the spatial agglomeration of labor-intensive manufacturing. Our findings suggest that it should be possible to separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies.

Keywords: local labor markets; geography; technology; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 O33 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2013-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-int and nep-ure
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Published - published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 220-225

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