both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …

technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in China. We exploit regional variations in capital goods import exposure … stemming from initial differences in import structure and instrument for the capital goods import growth using exchange rate …

' incentives to export. The results indicate that the export wage premium is due to exporting firms both (1) paying a wage premium … document that the export wage premium is larger for workers with more export-related experience. This indicates that the …

biographies of roughly 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany (1990–2010). To profit from export opportunities, workers … respond by increased employer switching within industries. Highly skilled workers benefit the most from increased export … exposure, consistent with an increase in skill demand. The incidence of import shocks falls mostly on low-skilled workers, as …

regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …

aim atexplaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non-neoclassicallabor market features … theimport as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid largebiases that characterized the …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and … unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing …