Globalization and the perceptions of American Workers / Kenneth F. Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124) and index.

Public Perceptions and Preferences about Globalization -- The Facts about US Policy Preferences -- Cleavages in Public Preferences about Globalization -- Theory of Policy Preferences -- Data Description -- Econometric Specifications -- Empirical Results: Do Skill Levels Affect Trade Policy Preferences? -- Robustness Checks for Trade Policy Preferences -- Asset Ownership and Trade Policy Preferences -- Empirical Results: Do Skill Levels Affect Immigration Policy Preferences? -- Empirical Results: Does Local Immigrant Concentration Affect Immigration Policy Preferences? -- Robustness Checks for Immigration Policy Preferences -- Labor-Market Pressures Facing Workers -- Changes in US Relative and Real Wages -- Has Globalization Driven Recent US Wage Changes? -- Worker Perceptions and Pressures in the Global Economy -- Is There a Disconnect between Worker Perceptions and Pressures in the United States? -- Policy Implications -- The Theory of Policy Cleavages -- Data Description -- Multiple Imputation Methodology -- Further Evidence of the Skills-Preference Cleavage -- Globalization in terms of US imports and exports as a share of GDP -- Globalization in terms of US immigrant inflows -- Globalization in terms of US inward and outward FDI stock as a share of GDP -- The skill premium in US manufacturing -- Private-sector nonfarm average weekly earnings -- Differential real-wage performance across skill groups -- World wage pool: Manufacturing wages and population, 1994 -- US tariffs are higher in less-skill-intensive sectors.