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International trade and labor market discrimination
Chisik, Richard; Namini, Julian Emami - 2016
We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two …-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade … trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism, reduces the matching probability and output in the skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520834
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The rise of the East and the far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen des beispiellosen Anstiegs des internationalen Handels zwischen Deutschland und dem Osten - China und Osteuropa - im Zeitraum 1988-2008 auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Anhand von administrativen Daten nutzen wir die regionale Variation der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323824
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The German-Czech border region after the fall of the Iron Curtain: Effects on the labour market. An empirical study using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS)
Moritz, Michael; Gröger, Margit - 2007
Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266822
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558995
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988 - 2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223570
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
The unprecedented economic rise of Eastern Europe and China in the last two decades has triggered concerns in developed Western market economies about adverse effects for domestic labor markets trough increased import competition. Simultaneously, exports from developed countries to these new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508139
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The rise of the East and the far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009564447
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Trade with Central and Eastern Europe : Is it Really a Threat to Wages in the West?
Polgar, Eva Katalin - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138239
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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067