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information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …
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This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …
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We study the effect of import competition on workers' mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the … mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition … in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find an increase in import competition to have a positive, statistically …
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This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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increased import exposure has led to an increase in the probability of German plants leaving industry-wide bargaining agreements …
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This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … data from 1987-2009, we find that import exposure increases the support of nationalist parties and causes labor market … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …
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