trade_protection {micsr}

Lobying from Capitalists and Unions and Trade Protection

Description

a cross-section of 194 United States

Format

a tibble containing:

• ntb: nontariff barrier coverage ratio

• vshipped: value of shipments

• imports: importations

• elast: demand elasticity

• cap: lobying

• labvar: labor market covariate

• sic3: 3-digit SIC industry classification

• k_serv: physical capital, factor share

• inv: Inventories, factor share

• engsci: engineers and scientists, factor share

• whitecol: white collar, factor share

• skill: skilled, factor share

• semskill: semi-skilled, factor share

• cropland: cropland, factor shaer

• pasture: pasture, factor share

• forest: forest, factor share

• coal: coal, factor share

• petro: petroleum, factor share

• minerals: minerals, factor share

• scrconc: seller concentration

• bcrconc: buyer concentration

• scrcomp: seller number of firms

• bcrcomp: buyer number of firms

• meps: scale

• kstock: capital stock

• puni: proportion of workers union

• geog2: geographic concentration

• tenure: average worker tenure, years

• klratio: capital-labor ratio

• bunion:

Source

American Economic Association Data Archive : https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/

References

Matschke X, Sherlund SM (2006). “Do Labor Issues Matter in the Determination of U.S. Trade Policy? An Empirical Reevaluation.” American Economic Review, 96(1), 405-421.