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- Title
Labor Market Volatility, Gender, and Trade Preferences.
- Authors
Brutger, Ryan; Guisinger, Alexandra
- Abstract
What explains divides in the public's support for trade protection? Traditional economic arguments primarily focus on individuals' expectations for increased or decreased wages in the face of greater economic openness, yet studies testing such wage-based concerns identify a different divide as well: even after accounting for wage effects, women are typically more supportive of trade protection. We argue that trade-induced employment volatility and the resulting concerns for employment stability are overlooked factors that help explain the gender divide in attitudes. Due to both structural discrimination and societal norms, we theorize that working women are more responsive to the threat of trade-related employment instability than male counterparts. Using an experiment fielded on national samples in the USA and Canada, we find that most respondents have weak reactions to volatility, but volatility has a significant effect on women who are the most vulnerable to trade's disruptive effects – those working in import-competing industries and those with limited education.
- Subjects
CANADA; TARIFF preferences; MARKET volatility; LABOR market; PAYROLL accounting; GENDER; ATTITUDE (Psychology); OPENNESS to experience
- Publication
Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
2052-2630
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/XPS.2021.9