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Title: Can Import Competition Explain the Skill Content in the United States?

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Skill content varies enormously across industries and overtime. This paper showsthat in addition to di erences in capital-to-labor ratios, di erences in import competitioncan explain an economically and statistically signi cant portion of the variations ofvarious skill measures across the manufacturing industries. Speci cally, industries facingmore intense import competition employ more non-routine sets of skills, includingcognitive, interpersonal and manual skills, and less cognitive routine skills. In addition,we nd that the impact of import competition on skills is not speci c to imports fromlow-wage countries or from Chinese imports. A number of robustness checks suggestthat the results are unlikely to be driven by econometric problems.

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Authors: Ng, Travis; Lu, Yi

Publisher: National University of Singapore

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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