Imports from China: How Did It Impact Immigrant Jobs? Authors:

In our analysis, we consider this adjustment by immigrants in the labor market, but in response to the trade shock in manufacturing which coincides with the period of the rapid increase in automation in manufacturing in the US economy (Acemoglu and Restrepo, 2020). [...] From figure 4a, the CZs with the highest shares of STEM workers in manufacturing were concentrated in some regions in the far west and some regions in the east, mostly in metropolitan hubs. [...] For example, in one of the specifications, the left-hand side of eq.(2) is the employment growth of STEM immigrants in the manufacturing sector between year t and year t+n. [...] It includes the share of manufacturing employment in a CZ, the share of foreign-born in the population in a CZ, the share of STEM employment in a CZ, and the share of high-skilled workers defined by college education in the population in a CZ.7 The first covariate captures the across-CZ difference in trade exposure arising from the initial composition of the manufacturing industry share,while the. [...] Positive employment growth for natives in the non-manufacturing sector increases the wages of the immigrants in the same occupations within the sector.