In this paper, we use detailed trade and transactions data for the U.S. manufacturing sector to empirically analyze the … direction and magnitude of the association between firm-level exposure to trade and the volatility of employment growth. We find … in terms of the duration of time and intensity with which firms trade, the number and type of products they trade and the …

initial exposure to trade in the 1970s were disproportionately affected by the ensuing dollar appreciation in the 1980s, and … Melitz model extension with sunk fixed costs, which leads to a dynamic gravity equation whereby shocks to trade have …

Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) with the firm-level production and trade data of Turkish manufacturing industry, this paper … is exploring the employment impact of international trade. The analysis is based on firm level data obtained from Turkish …

We perform a granular analysis of Swedish labor market dynamics, using matched employer employee and firm level trade … data for Sweden over a 15-year period. The employment share in firms that are directly exposed to international trade has …

Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …

labour demand elasticity. Trade might induce an increase in this elasticity via a scale effect due to the increased … find sig-nificant substitution effect of trade on labour demand elasticity only for the U.K. For Italy and France the …

Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) with the firm-level production and trade data of Turkish manufacturing industry, this paper … is exploring the employment impact of international trade. The analysis is based on firm level data obtained from Turkish …

Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap … exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys … the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified …

Using a panel of MENA countries, this paper tries to examine the interaction between trade reforms and labor market … regulations on the outcome of the labor market. The theoretical predictions on this literature show that the effects of trade … liberalization in any given country are conditional on the nature of labor market regulations since trade liberalization is more …