Making Sense of Anti-trade Sentiment (eBook)

International Trade and the American Worker

R. White (Autor)

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2014 | 2014
XV, 258 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-37325-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Examining the extent to which trade adversely affects domestic workers, Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment documents statistical relationships between exports and imports and domestic employment/wages.

Roger White is Associate Professor of Economics at Whittier College, USA. His research largely focuses on international trade, labor, and migration. Roger has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and he is the author of three books.

Inhalt

PART I: WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ANTI-TRADE SENTIMENT 1. Nearly Two Centuries Have Passed Since David Ricardo… 2. Public Opinion of International Trade: America and the World 3. A Shift in Comparative Advantage? PART II: IN SEARCH OF STOLPER-SAMUELSON(-LIKE) EFFECTS 4. The Influences of Trade on Industry-level Wages and Employment 5. Value Share Import Competition and U.S. Manufacturing Employment 6. The Employment Effects of Free Trade Agreements and Industry Trade-orientation 7. Import Competition and the Probability of Job Displacement 8. State and Regional Variation in the Probability of Trade-related Job Displacement PART III: THE SMOOTH ADJUSTMENT HYPOTHESIS AND POLICIES THAT ASSIST TRADE-DISPLACED WORKERS 9. Does Intra-industry Trade Explain a Lack of Trade-related Labor Market Dynamics 10. Displacement-related Earnings Losses: Evaluating Trade Adjustment Assistance and Wage Insurance PART IV: MAKING SENSE OF ANTI-TRADE SENTIMENT 11. What May Explain Anti-trade Sentiment Among the American Public 12. Identifying the Determinants of Pro- and Anti-trade Sentiment 13. Conclusions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2014
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 258 p. 6 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance • America • anti-trade • Asymmetric information • ATAA • balanced exporters • balanced importers • Capital • Comparative Advantage • Competition • Data • Displacement • displacement-related • Domestic • Dornbusch-Fischer-Samuelson model • earnings losses • economy • Empirical • Employment • Exports • foreign • International Trade • Labor Market • Trade
• ISBN-10: 1-137-37325-3 / 1137373253
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-37325-0 / 9781137373250