Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that have hit Western … reduction in population size, whereas trade with China did not. The decline in population size due to robots resulted from …

We develop a model of international trade with a monopsonistically competitive labour market in which firms employ … production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade …