TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ebenstein,Avraham
AU  - Harrison,Ann
AU  - McMillan,Margaret
AU  - Phillips,Shannon
TI  - Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15107
PY  - 2009
Y2  - June 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15107
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15107.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Avraham Ebenstein
Department of Economics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mount Scopus Campus, #4208
Jerusalem, Israel 91905
E-Mail: ebenstein@mscc.huji.ac.il

Ann Harrison
Department of Agricultural
and Resource Econonmics
University of California, Berkeley
210 Giannini Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510/643-9676
Fax: 510/643-8911
E-Mail: ann.harrison@berkeley.edu

Margaret S. McMillan
Tufts University
Department of Economics
114a Braker Hall
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617/627-3137
Fax: 617/627-3197
E-Mail: margaret.mcmillan@tufts.edu

Shannon Phillips
Boston College
Boston, Mass.
E-Mail: phillisg@bc.edu
AB  - We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with larger wage effects than industry exposure. This effect has been overlooked because it operates between rather than within sectors of the economy. We also find that globalization is associated with a reallocation of workers across sectors and occupations. We estimate wage losses of 2 to 4 percent among workers leaving manufacturing and 4 to 11 percent among workers who also switch occupations. These effects are most pronounced for workers who perform routine tasks.
ER  -