The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
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The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
Import competition and the great U.S. employment sag of the 2000s
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Frequently Asked Questions (7)
Q2. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Nber working paper series the surprisingly swift decline of u.s. manufacturing employment" ?
This paper documents a strong relationship between the sharp decline in U. S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and the United States ' conferral of permanent normal trade relations on China, a policy that is notable for eliminating the possibility of future tari increases rather than reducing the tari s actually applied to Chinese goods. The authors hope to bring additional data to bear on these questions in future research.
Q3. What is the significance of the coe cients for capital and skill intensity?
Coe cients for capital and skill intensity are mostly positive and negative, respectively, indicating that higher capital intensity is associated with higher employment growth, while higher skill intensity is associated with lower employment growth.
Q4. What is the important factor in the agglomeration patterns of U.S.?
Ellison, Glaeser and Kerr (2010) show that proximity to input suppliers and nal customers is the most important factor in the agglomeration patterns of U.S. manufacturing industries.
Q5. What is the reason for the differences in the NTR gap?
Another explanation for their results is that they are driven by labor-saving technical changes, such as automation, which are spuriously correlated with the NTR gap.
Q6. What does the President have to do to grant tari to non-market economies?
Act of 1974 allows the President to grant NTR tari rates to nonmarket economies on a temporary basis subject to Congressional approval.
Q7. What is the effect of PNTR on the growth rate of production hours?
The estimates in column 4 indicate that PNTR also had a substantial (-18.7 percentage points) negative e ect on the growth rate of production hours, con rming that the decline in employment can not be solely attributed to an increase in the number of hours worked per employee.