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Import Competition and Skill Content in U.S. Manufacturing Industries

Author(s) -

Yi Lu,

Travis Ng

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the review of economics and statistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 8.999

H-Index - 165

eISSN - 1530-9142

pISSN - 0034-6535

DOI - 10.1162/rest_a_00311

Subject(s) - competition (biology) , wage , robustness (evolution) , economics , manufacturing , interpersonal communication , china , face (sociological concept) , industrial organization , social skills , business , labour economics , marketing , psychology , ecology , social psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , social science , sociology , biology , political science , law , gene , psychotherapist

Skill content varies enormously across industries and over time. This paper shows that import competition can explain a significant portion of the variation in various skill measures across manufacturing industries. Industries that face more intense import competition employ more nonroutine skill sets, including cognitive, interpersonal, and manual skills, and fewer cognitive routine skills. In addition, we find that the impact of import competition on skills is not driven by imports from low-wage countries or from China. A number of robustness checks also suggest that our results are unlikely to be driven by econometric problems.

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