Robert C. Feenstra

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the 1980's and argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that part of the apparent speed-up in productivity growth actually represents gains in the terms of trade and tariff reductions, especially for high-tech products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of bilateral trade data by commodity for 1962-2000, which is available from www.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data).

TL;DR: In this article, a summary of the major trends in foreign direct investment over the 1980-1995 period is presented, along with five fallacies dealing with: the magnitude of foreign investment in Japan; the impact of FDI on the U.S. and Japanese trade balance; the extent to which multinational corporations control U. S. trade; the effect of exchange rate movements on foreign investment flows; and finally the impact on welfare of the host country.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the impact of trade on U.S. employment from imports and exports using the World Input-Output Database (WIB) during 1995-2011.