This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … 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 …

trade in addition to wages. The bottom-line interests are to provide elasticities of the demand for unskilled (and other …) labor that should assist in short-run policy design and to identify the extent of skill biases or otherwise in trade and …

This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on …