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Title: Gender Inequality in U.S. Manufacturing : Evidence from the Import Competition
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: In this paper, I analyze the effect of import competition from China on gender inequality in the US manufacturing sector. China's import competition between 1990-2007 provides a unique opportunity to explore the effect of gender inequality by a trade liberalization that hits harder on female-intensive sectors. I conduct a detailed analysis of how Chinese import competition affect employment and wage outcomes differently between men and women. I find that female workers experienced a more substantial decline in the manufacturing employment and wage in relative to their male counterparts. This gender difference by the impacts of Chinese import competition is not fully explained by gender difference in exposure to trade shock across industries. By comparing male and female manufacturing employment across education and age groups, I find the gender inequality is felt most strongly by low skilled and old women. Meanwhile, there is an increase of nonmanufacturing employment for low-skilled women which offsets their job losses in the manufacturing sector. 1
Url: http://www.freit.org/WorkingPapers/Papers/TradePolicyGeneral/FREIT1517.pdf
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Authors: Yu, Chan
Series Title: Trade Policy General
Publication Number: 1517
Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Pages: 71
Publisher Location: Austin, TX
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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