We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …

We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final … suffer the largest earnings losses, while for high- skilled workers the wage-effect is positive. …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …

separation rates that lead to the informal sector absorbing more labor during downturns. Second, focusing on secular movements in … finding rates in the formal sector. A small fraction of this is driven by trade liberalization, and the remainder seems driven …

. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual … gains from trade are understated when the informal sector is omitted. (3) Trade openness results in large welfare gains even … welfare. (5) The effects of trade on wage inequality are reversed when the informal sector is incorporated in the analysis. (6 …

, exploiting revisions in Indonesia's highly-granular negative investment list, and spatial variation in the exposure of the …, explaining about one-tenth of the aggregate employment increases observed between 2006 and 2016 in Indonesia. These employment …

This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical … skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To … uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …