This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first show that import shocks affect employment and income, but only in areas where jobs are more intense in routine tasks. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health...

Innovationen sind die entscheidenden Voraussetzungen für die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und des daraus resultierenden einzel- und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Wachstums. Anhand der Ergebnisse der jüngsten Innovationsbefragung des ifo Instituts wird ein Überblick über die laufenden...

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....