Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021
In this paper I try to determine whether international trade has been increasing the own-price elasticity of demand for … U.S. labor in recent years. The empirial work yields three main results. First, from 1960 through 1990 demand for U …, during this time U.S. nonproduction-labor demand did not become more elastic in manufacturing overall or in any of the 8 …