increased opportunity and ability of firms to expand their foreign trade, has recently been challenged by George Borjas in … precisely that evidence of a powerful pro-trade effect of international migration. Here we extend that body of evidence by … looking to history. We show that immigration, primarily from Europe between 1870 and 1910, had an important pro-trade effect …

paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …

We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous … reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data … on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global …

This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine … the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …

Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs … of the impact of trade are related to their career paths, job characteristics, and local labor market conditions … education rather than labor market experiences or job characteristics. -- globalization ; trade ; job characteristics ; local …

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor …-manufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology …-processing tasks in non-manufacturing. -- technological change ; trade flows ; import competition ; skill demand ; job tasks ; local …

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 …

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … local dialect between regions have a sizable and significant positive impact on intra-national trade. We interpret this …

We investigate the local effects of trade exposure and immigration on voting behavior in France from 1988 to 2022. We …