Skill Upgrading and Imports in US Manufacturing
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Recent theoretical models show that international trade can induce within-industry skillupgrading by raising R&D intensity and creating skill-biased technologies. This paper tests this assertion by estimating the effect of rising import shares on wage shares for 4-digit SIC US manufacturing industries. Using Arellano-Bond estimation to account for the endogeneity of imports, I find that neither rising import shares nor changes in outsourcing are correlated with rising skill intensity in US manufacturing between 1980 and 1988. Between 1990 and 1996, however, it appears that rising import shares are associated with lower skill-intensity. It does not appear that imports from low-wage countries have a stronger effect on skill intensity relative to non-low-wage imports. JEL Codes: F14, F16, J21, J30
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