-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms in trade, we build industry-level measures of import competition. Combining … worker data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics dataset, detailed establishment information from the Census of … Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …

groups either married couples in other European countries (not affected by the law change), or Irish families who did not … experience a significant increase in the expected risk of divorce (such as very religious families, or single individuals). Our …

-in-difference approach, using families for whom the dissolution risk is small as a control group. Our results suggest that the legalization … driven by selection and are robust to several specification checks, including the introduction of household fixed effects and …

firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more … Mexican and U.S. import tariffs together with the Mexican National Survey of Urban Labour (ENEU), I find that reductions in … the Mexican import tariffs are significantly related to reductions in the likelihood of informality in the tradable …

concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing … import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … conducts a “horse race” between export opportunities and import competition. Using Spanish firm level data, instrumenting for … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import …

analysis is used to try and uncover the factors which may be driving the emergence of the gender gaps. Drawing on household … household spending were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolment outcomes as revealed in census data for … expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich (Jiangsu) Chinese province we are able to test for different types of gender bias …

We analyse self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household … divorced. There appears to be little correlation between happiness and either gender or education level. We find some evidence …

inequality. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey we find that the period 1995-2005 was a period of substantial … household wealth accumulation that occurred during 1995-2005 and somewhere between 26 and 30 per cent of the wealth accumulation …