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Joseph Steinberg is an associate professor in the University of Toronto economics department. (Photo: submitted)

Tariffs, Manufacturing Employment, and Supply Chains

A talk in the Economics Speaker Series by Dr. Joseph Steinberg (PhD)

Event

Date: Thursday, Oct. 16
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Arts Building Room 214, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon

Free and open to the public

About this event

Guest speaker: Dr. Joseph Steinberg (PhD), University of Toronto

I use a dynamic general-equilibrium model with supply-chain adjustment frictions to study the effects of tariffs on manufacturing employment. The model has four distinct manufacturing sectors: upstream goods with high trade elasticities (“oil''); upstream goods with low trade elasticities (“steel''); downstream goods with high trade elasticities (“toys''); and downstream goods with low trade elasticities (“cars''). I find that tariffs can increase overall manufacturing employment in the long run but are likely to reduce it in the short run and cause more reallocation of workers across these individual sectors than overall employment growth.

Info: economics.dept@usask.ca


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