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| Author: | Slaughter, M. J. |
| Title: | International trade and labor - demand elasticities |
| Journal: | Journal of International Economics
2001 : JUN, VOL. 54:1, p. 27-56 |
| Index terms: | Labour markets International trade USA |
| Freeterms: | Demand for labour Trade and labour market interactions Elasticities |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The author tries to determine whether international trade has been increasing the own-price elasticity of demand for U.S. labor in recent decades. The empirical work yields three main results. First, from 1961 through 1991 demand for U.S. production labor became more elastic in manufacturing overall and in five of eight industries within manufacturing. Second, during Second, during this time U.S. nonproduction-labor demand did not become more elastic in manufacturing overall or in any of the eight industries within manufacturing. Third, the hypothesis that trade contributed to increased elasticities has mixed support, at best. |
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