We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

domestic sources (the substitution effect), the loss in international competitiveness has a negative volume effect (the output … qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to …

. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition …

We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative … estimates suggest that import competition from China explains almost 10% of the reduction in the manufacturing employment share …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million …

impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …

into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …