This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment … in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …

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

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …

decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have … of Chinese import penetration at the firm level on wages within job-spells and over the longer term taking transitions in …-level demand shock, which is biased towards low-skill intensive products. Consistent with this, an increase in Chinese import …

trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession … and labor market power. Reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs has increased a firm's price-cost markup but decreased the …