Import Competition and Workplace Injuries in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
2017/06/16
研討會日期 : 2017-06-16
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Tat-Kei Lai (黎達基)
主持人 : Professor Kamhon Kan
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Lai received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2011. He is currently an assistant professor of IÉSEG School of Management. His research interests include Empirical micro, Corporate finance.
演講摘要 : The past 20 years have witnessed dramatic reductions in U.S. workplace injuries in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing workplaces, as well as a surge in Chinese manufacturing imports. Did Chinese import competition make the manufacturing industries safer? We use a model to show that Chinese imports can increase firm-level injury rates but at the same time decrease industry aggregate injury rates. Our 2SLS regression results indicate that there is a negative impact of Chinese imports on the industry-level and regional-level injury rates. Chinese imports reduce injury rates likely through reducing the employment shares of the more dangerous occupations.
