US exports and employment

Robert Feenstra, Hong Ma and Yuan Xu

Journal of International Economics, 2019, vol. 120, issue C, 46-58

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: F14 F16 J23 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2019.05.002

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