This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in … firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete the picture of total trade-induced net job creation. We implement … the trade cost measure introduced by Chen and Novy (2011) and base it on own estimates of industry specific substitution …

This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …

domestic firms is relevant also at a more aggregate level to explain cross-sectional differences in wages among workers and … spatial differences in average wages across regions within a country. …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

This paper introduces a framework to study the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality and welfare in the … wage-setting power by the firm. With more productive firms paying higher wages, monopsony power dampens the impact of firm … wages on the right side of the distribution. Nevertheless, inequality in the open economy is always higher than in autarky …

What are the pro-competitive consequences of trade in frictional labor markets? This paper develops and estimates a … dynamic general equilibrium trade model to show that the interplay between endogenously variable markups in product markets … and frictions in labor markets has important implications for aggregate as well as distributional consequences of trade …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U ….S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and …

production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the …