Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy …-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …

In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and … new trade barriers. Looking across areas, we find that exposure to new Brexit trade barriers is uncorrelated with measures …

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 … countries with high endowments of unskilled labor, their wages should rise relative to those of skilled labor. This paper …

of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK … considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …

of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK … considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …

-indifferences methods we find wages to decline by up to 5.2% annually over an eight-year post period. Our results suggest that a trade …Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the … disproportionately affect wages for workers who perform tasks sensitive to the technology specialization (software or robotics) of the …

, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs …: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring … to the East entails the opposite effect. The overall effect adds up to a 4.2 percent increase in wages for jobs with high …

likely to have a positive impact on employment and wages in countries with flexible labor markets and vice versa. Moreover …, more regulated labor markets tend to have higher wages at the expense of sector wide employment. Our main findings show … that labor market rigidity reduces the positive impact of trade reform on employment. While this result is stronger for …

Austria is a small open economy that in the last decades underwent two different waves of increasing trade integration …: one with Eastern Europe and one with China. This paper studies the effects of increases in trade with China and Eastern … to China have facilitated employment growth, especially in high quality segments. Overall, these results add a cautious …