Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs

Clair Brown (), Julia Lane and Timothy Sturgeon ()
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Clair Brown: University of California, Berkeley
Timothy Sturgeon: MIT

No 5368, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers’ perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths, job characteristics, and local labor market conditions. Surprisingly, given prior literature, we find that workers’ perceptions primarily reflect local labor market conditions and education rather than labor market experiences or job characteristics.

Keywords: job loss; local labor markets; job characteristics; trade; globalization; job security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2010-12
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Published - published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (1), 1 - 21

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