We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising … import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the Germanclothing industry caused by …

Does export lead to improvement in labor market outcomes? The answer to this is not always clear from the literature …. Despite the rising role of export markets, informality is still high, and inequality is worsening in many developing economies …. In addition, export expansion driven by commodities has also been linked with the Dutch disease phenomenon. Using the …

In this paper, we relate outcomes of El Salvadors local labor markets to their exposure to Chinese import competition … import competition have negatively affected manufacturing and nontradable employment. Some workers were pushed into … import competition, informality has decreased in the former sector and increased in the latter. This change in labor …

measure the indirect effects stemming from increased export competition in third markets. Our findings, based on matched …