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Workers at Risk: Job Loss from Apparel, Textiles, Footwear and Furniture
by Lori G. Kletzer
Forthcoming
• 150 pp. ISBN paper 0-88132-294-6
In this study, Lori Kletzer documents the intensity and evolution of the relationship between trade and US employment. She analyzes, on an industry-by-industry basis, the links between (1) rising import shares and job decline and (2) export shares and employment growth.Kletzer notes that fluctuations in foreign demand for exports have often been more important than fluctuations in domestic demand and imports in causing changes in industry employment, especially in the early 1980s and mid-1990s. But jobs differ in quality and workers differ in skills. What have been the trends since 1979 in the relation of trade to "good" jobs? Did more skilled American workers gain relative to less-skilled workers? Or did the reverse occur more often?Kletzer estimates gains and losses of wages and hours associated with changes in exports and imports, for different skill groups in different US industries. Building on that analysis, she assesses future US policy options with respect to both trade and the workforce.
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