This paper examines, in France, the relationship between imports – and trade more generally – and employment. It builds … on the burgeoning literature relating trade and labour markets, taking into account theories of firm-level trade and … covering trade, economic variables and employment for the time period from 1995 to 2004. The data set covers manufacturing …

We analyze the effects of trade liberalization on Mexican employment at an occupational level for the period from 1992 … to 2009, ranking occupations by skill level. We find that the reduction in trade costs associated with Mexico's entry to …-biased technological change in Mexico, and in favour of a heterogeneous-firm model of trade in tasks where the offshoring cost of an …

considers the link between trade and labour market outcomes in Germany. To that end we combine individual-level data from the … German Socio Economic Panel for the period 1999 to 2007 with industry-level data on various aspects of trade – exports … analysis suggests that there is little impact of trade-related variables on individual-level wages, whereas there appears to be …

In light of the importance of the relationship between trade and employment in Japan, this paper examines the effects …

some of the associated impacts on output, trade patterns and employment. In agriculture, the story is one of widespread … principal analytical contribution, this paper considers future trade liberalisation in the agricultural sector. Using two … different economic models, we find a remarkably consistent pattern whereby agricultural trade liberalisation in the region is …

This paper addresses the relationship between trade, employment and wages in Italy from the perspective of the specific … economic integration, including trade and international outsourcing, changed the structure of the Italian economy? To what … opens with a short review of the relevant literature and a description of recent developments in the trade specialisation …

This report provides a summary of the literature on the relationship between trade and informality in developing … trade and informal labour markets: (1) theoretical predictions for trade and informality; (2) how trade liberalisation … affects informal labour markets; (3) how trade flows affect the informal economy; and (4) what implications informality has …