international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have … exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which … equipment sector in both Germany and the US; in Germany also in ICT production. However, most of the observed sectors have weak … effect of a 20% export expansion in Germany amounts to about 800 000 new jobs. Looking only at the US and German perspective …

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very …

misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …

At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists … and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to …. Specialization based on comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then …

played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong …, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time … alleles at all locations. Under trade, there exist long-run equilibria where less fit individuals are able to achieve the same …