The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
研究了美国各地劳动力市场面临的贸易和技术冲击在空间上的重叠程度,发现两者在地理上基本不相关,技术冲击分布更分散,贸易冲击更集中。
This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of technology are dispersed throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in part to the spatial agglomeration of labor-intensive manufacturing. Our findings highlight the feasibility of separately identifying the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on US regional economies.