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Title: Manufacturing Wages and Imports: Evidence from the NLSY
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Kosteas, Vasilios D. |
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Manufacturing Wages and Imports: Evidence from the NLSY Economica 75,298 (May 2008): 259-279. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00591.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Blue-Collar Jobs; Job Status; Wages; White Collar Jobs This paper analyses the effect of imports on US manufacturing wages using the NLSY79 data-set, estimating differential impacts on blue-and white-collar wages. I find that rising imports put downward pressure on wages between 1979 and 1988. This correlation holds for both white- and blue-collar workers, with a somewhat stronger impact on the latter group. Evidence suggests that imports from low-wage countries are responsible for the negative relationship between imports and wages, but only for blue-collar wages. A one-percentage-point increase in the low-wage import share is associated with a 2.8% decline in blue-collar wages. |
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Kosteas, Vasilios D. "Manufacturing Wages and Imports: Evidence from the NLSY." Economica 75,298 (May 2008): 259-279.
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