Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when … estimator matches the changes in observed sectoral employment allocations with the predicted allocations from a model of costly …

Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to a trade shock when … worldwide. Our estimator matches observed employment flows with those flows predicted by a model of costly labor adjustment. We … markets (wages and employment) to trade policy. …