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

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

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 …

, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …

regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export … effect on employment relationships. -- international trade ; import competition ; export opportunities ; local labor markets …We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe …

. -- 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 …