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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.

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10.1057/9781137373250 - Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment, Roger White

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Making Sense of Anti-trade Sentiment

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International Trade and the American Worker

Roger White

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Making Sense of Anti-trade Sentiment

making sense of anti -trade sentiment

Copyright © Roger White, 2014. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—­a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–37324–3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: September 2014 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

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List of Figures and Tables

vii

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Part I  Why It Is Important to Understand Anti-trade Sentiment

1

1. Nearly Two Centuries Have Passed since David Ricardo . . . 

3

2. Public Opinion of International Trade: America and the World

21

3. A Shift in Comparative Advantage?

37

Part II  In Search of Stolper-Samuelson(-like) Effects

59

4. The Influences of Trade on Industry-level Wages and Employment

61

5. Value Share Import Competition and US Manufacturing Employment

77

6. The Employment Effects of Free Trade Agreements and Industry Trade Orientation

89

7. Import Competition and the Probability of Job Displacement

109

8. State and Regional Variation in the Probability of Trade-related Job Displacement

137

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Contents

vi   l   Contents

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