transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from migrationinduced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity …. While we find evidence supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our …

To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity … a key role in attenuating the economic consequences of agricultural productivity shocks. Exploiting firm-level variation …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution. -- intra-industry trade ; heterogeneous … Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical base of trade models with heterogeneous firms. Our model is …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the … trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession … to the World Trade Organization. We find that trade liberalization has not switched firms away from exercising product …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK …

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a …-born 25-39 years old, implying that exit from work is a primary means of adjustment to trade-induced contractions in labor …

Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous … driven by the high productivity firms, and a fall in informal-enterprise employment. The labor reallocation is enabled by the … increased formal sector employment share by 3.7 percentage points, and aggregate labor productivity by 2.87%, between 2000 …