Title: A Sorted Tale of Globalization

Abstract: We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two understudied aspects: it deals with service trade (most studies deal with manufacturing trade) and it examines the historical first of U.S. workers competing with educated but low-wage foreign workers. Our empirical agenda is made complicated by the endogeneity of service imports and the endogenous sorting of workers across occupations...

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Publication ID: 64

Category Description: Indicators for International Trade and Economic Globalization

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: NBER

Year: 2011

Month: November

Sub Title: White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring

Author 1: Runjuan Liu

Author 2: Daniel Trefler

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Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17559.pdf?new_window=1

Tags: China , India , labour markets , occupational switching , service imports , trade and wages debate , trade in services , trade in tasks ,

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