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Title: Regional Divergence and Import Competition

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: For the last decades, regions in the United States have been diverging. More skillintensive regions have experienced a higher wage and skill premium growth and had become even more skill-intensive. In this paper, I show that this may be driven in part by trade with China. One of the main ndings of this paper is that the consequences on local labor markets of higher import competition are highly heterogeneous. In particular, I focus on how consequences of imports from Chinese manufacturers are dierent depending on the share of college-educated workforce in the regions. Conditional to be exposed to the same level of import competition, eects in terms of wages and growth of college-educated population growth are especially negative for less educated regions. However, this nding does not mean just an attenuation of negative eects for more educated areas. Instead, I nd that import competition has net positive eects among more college-educated regions. Indeed, among more skill-intensive regions, a greater exposure to import competition attracts college-educated workers and increases collegewages and skill premium; whereas it has the opposite eect among less skill-intensive regions

Url: http://www.seriesworkingpapers.it/RePEc/bai/series/SERIES_WP_03-2018.pdf

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Authors: Quintana González, Javier

Series Title: SERIES Working Paper

Publication Number: 03-2018

Institution: Università degli Studi di Bari

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Publisher Location: Bari, Italy

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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