Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

industries and occupations. -- Import shock ; adjustment ; clothing industry ; Germany …This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …

. -- Subsidies ; export ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to …

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … balanced trade with China (such as Germany and Switzerland). Drawing on a new analysis for the UK, we further show that trade … regions with greater exposure to import competition also suffer from higher crime rates, a deterioration of health outcomes …

This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …

-female wage gap surrounding an exogenous policy change in the European Union that corresponded to a discrete increase in apparel-export … increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach … robust to incorporating input-output table data to account for the contributions of non-traded industries to export markets. …

This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …