Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United … 2011. We apply a synthetic panel approach to employment survey data and a more descriptive approach to Census data from …

immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … effects on native wages. On the latter side of the debate, many point to the work of Borjas (2003) who takes a national view … estimate a positive, statistically significant relationship between men's wages and women's entry into education …

This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms …, uncovering a number of stylised facts about the firms engaged in international trade in services, their choices of modes of … supply and the links between services trade and manufacturing activities. The report then relates these outcomes to services …

Using firm level data on Italian manufacturing industry, we examine how trade activities are related to workforce … composition and wages. We contribute to empirical research on these issues in three ways. First, we provide novel evidence that is … consistent with multi-attribute models on firm heterogeneity and trade. In fact we show that even after controlling for various …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … non-production workers. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technical change is … wages of non-production (high-skilled) relative to production (low-skilled) workers that occurred during the 1980s …

zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. To this end, we … workers and productive firms, and the pass-through of firm and market shocks to workers' wages. Guided by these empirical …

reduction in manufacturing employment. Next, we present our main results, and show that, on average, robots caused a sizable … reduction in population size, whereas trade with China did not. The decline in population size due to robots resulted from … anything, favored employment growth outside of manufacturing. We provide suggestive evidence that these propagation patterns …

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased … provides a unique and new approach to address the question of whether trade and offshoring have impacted the occupational … structure of employment in the USA by comparing the evolution of employment across 175 detailed occupational categories in both …