This paper examines the effects of exports on employment in China, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. It draws on input …-output data for the period from 1995 to 2009 to estimate the effects on each industry's employment (i.e. direct effects) and on … other industries' employment through intra-industry linkages (i.e. indirect effects). There are four major findings. First …

has contributed to the evolution of employment in the country. This investigation has been undertaken in two ways. First …, the total employment variation was decomposed in order to identify the contribution of the final demand components … the labour content of trade, we estimated the volume of direct employment associated with exports, according to the skill …

This paper examines, in France, the relationship between imports – and trade more generally – and employment. It builds … covering trade, economic variables and employment for the time period from 1995 to 2004. The data set covers manufacturing … firms. The paper develops estimates of the relationship between employment and trade activity at the firm level, first on an …

We analyze the effects of trade liberalization on Mexican employment at an occupational level for the period from 1992 … NAFTA is related to larger employment expansions in low-skill occupations. This evidence runs counter to a story of skilled …

employment on skilled versus unskilled workers. The main findings are as follows. Firstly, this paper documents the significant … increase in the aggregate non-production employment share was due to the \within. effect, rather than the \between. effect …

The aims of this paper are to review the main schools of thought on the political economy of trade and employment, to …, focusing on the role of different types of political actors in the formation of policy concerning trade-and-employment issues …

some impact with respect to employment. We find some important differences between manufacturing and services sectors, in …

In light of the importance of the relationship between trade and employment in Japan, this paper examines the effects … of exports on employment (i.e. the number of workers), working-hours, and total worker-hours (i.e. employment times … estimate the effects of exports on the industry's employment (i.e. direct effect) but also on other industries' employment (i …