The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
David H. Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson
American Economic Review · 2013 · Volume 103 · Issue 3
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions, Trade and Labor Market Interactions, Technological Change: Choices and Consequences, Diffusion Processes, Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity, Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration, Regional Labor Markets, Population, Neighborhood Characteristics
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