against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock …

idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household …. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential to the analysis of intra-household allocations, especially labor … disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to …

of Chinese competition, we focus on the most intense period of the shock -2000 to 2013- and on its procompetitive and … employment point to a relatively small negative shock, not unlike that of the early 1990s, that was centered on low-skilled labor …

by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment …

aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. … addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at …

We study the impact of import competition on Mexican firm outcomes between 2003 and 2013 by exploiting variation in … import penetration across industries. Focusing on the increase in import competition from China that Mexico experienced … during this period, we find that the trade shock induced a decline in employment, sales, exports, and productivity …

import competition that may dampen employment gains. This paper finds that in the first decade of its existence, NAFTA had a …

We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between … 1998 and 2013. We exploit the spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry …