The geography of trade and technology shocks in the United States

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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 present 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 suggest that it should be possible to separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7326

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: trade ; technology ; geography ; local labor markets

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Autor, David H. ; Dorn, David ; Hanson, Gordon H.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/71741
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET