labor force participation and employment after a period of around two years. Our results are robust to a variety of … measures of trade protection and different time periods. Moreover, we find evidence that employment flows across sectors …

small increases in unemployment risk and no wage effects on the individual level, despite a 30% increase in plant mortality …

local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the predictions from long … exports of the female-intensive good, the male-female wage gap closes considerably throughout the country – not just in the …

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 …

Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the …-female wage gap surrounding an exogenous policy change in the European Union that corresponded to a discrete increase in apparel … sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the …

-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …

Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a closing of the male-female wage gap during the MFA period, but smaller … premiums and a widening wage gap after the end of the MFA. Our results suggest that apparel exports continued to benefit women …