Globalization And The Perceptions Of American Workers
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Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers
Recent research suggests that globalization has placed considerable pressure on lower-skilled US workers. In this study, the authors draw on data and surveys to examine the measurable and the perceived effects of US engagement with the world on American workers. As globalization comes under evergrowing scrutiny from all sides, this book should be of great interest to policymakers, researchers, and students.
Working Papers Volume II
Author: Peterson Institute for International Economics
language: en
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Release Date: 2007
Perhaps the most popular of all Institute products, selected Working Papers are now available in a print format. These papers contain the preliminary results of ongoing Institute research. The book covers a wide range of topics including offshoring, central banks, Eurasian growth, Europe, and international reserves. Included in the book are papers by Edwin M. Truman, Adam Posen, J. Bradford Jensen, Anders slund, C. Randall Henning, and Jacob Kirkegaard. Volume II contains papers from 2006. Future volumes will be published on a semi-regular schedule as material is available.
The Decline of US Labor Unions and the Role of Trade
Author: Robert Baldwin
language: en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2003-06-05
Between 1977 and 1997, there was a precipitous decline in the proportion of US workers with median education (12 years or less) who were represented by a labor union—from 29 to 14 percent; the unionization proportion declined much less among workers with above-median education (19 to 13 percent). The union wage premium also declined for workers with basic education, from 58 to 51 percent, whereas it rose slightly for better-educated unionists, from 18 to 19 percent. Thus, whatever safety net American unions provide was disproportionately lost by the less-educated workers who, arguably, need it the most. In this study, Robert E. Baldwin investigates the role of changes in US imports and exports in explaining this dramatic decline. The main analysis (which includes workers in manufacturing as well as service sectors) relates changes in the number of union workers across industries to changes in domestic spending, imports, exports, and the intensity with which labor is used across these industries for both union and nonunion workers. Baldwin finds that although globalization (i.e., increased trade) seems to have contributed only modestly to the general decline in unionization, it has, more importantly, contributed to the decline in unionization among workers with less education. The study concludes with a discussion on the implication of this and the other findings for governmental policy and for the policy position of unions toward globalization.