Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215320 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12924
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first show that import shocks affect employment and income, but only in areas where jobs are more intense in routine tasks. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health and mortality, we find that import had a detrimental effect on physical and mental health that is concentrated in those areas and exhibits strong persistence. It decreased health care utilisation and increased hospitalisation for a large set of conditions, more difficult to treat. The mortality hazard of workers in manufacturing increased by up to 6 percent per billion dollar import increase.
Subjects: 
import competition
routine tasks
health
health behaviour
hospitalisation
mortality
JEL: 
F16
I12
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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