IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/30646.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Shock

Author

Listed:
  • Lisa B. Kahn
  • Lindsay Oldenski
  • Geunyong Park

Abstract

Minority workers tend to be disproportionately harmed by negative economic shocks. Indeed, we show that Hispanic populations experienced worse employment losses due to import competition from China, relative to whites, largely due to lower education levels. In contrast, Black-white employment and wage gaps actually narrowed due to relative growth in non-manufacturing sectors. We show that Black workers were less attached to manufacturing by 2000, compared to whites, and were therefore more poised to take advantage of China shock induced reallocation to services. The lasting negative impacts of the China shock on exposed communities were primarily driven by white workers.

Suggested Citation

  • Lisa B. Kahn & Lindsay Oldenski & Geunyong Park, 2022. "Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Shock," NBER Working Papers 30646, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30646
    Note: ITI LS PE
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w30646.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ioannis Kospentaris & Leslie S. Stratton, 2025. "The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men: 1970–2019," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 38(1), pages 1-21, March.
    2. David Autor & David Dorn & Gordon Hanson & Maggie R. Jones & Bradley Setzler, 2024. "Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization," Working Papers 24-78, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    3. Hanson, Gordon H. & Moretti, Enrico, 2025. "Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? Changes in the Geography of Work in the U.S., 1980-2021," SocArXiv z6qkn_v1, Center for Open Science.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30646. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/nberrus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.