Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265944 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9909
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
President Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local labor market's reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. We find the tariffs did not boost local steel employment but substantially depressed local employment in steel-consuming industries for many years after Bush removed the tariffs. These large and persistent negative effects were concentrated in local labor markets that had low human capital or were strongly specialized in steel-consuming industries.
Subjects: 
Bush steel tariffs
safeguard tariffs
local labor markets
intermediate inputs
downstream
steel-consuming
JEL: 
F13
F14
F16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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