This paper examines, in France, the relationship between imports – and trade more generally – and employment. It builds … covering trade, economic variables and employment for the time period from 1995 to 2004. The data set covers manufacturing … firms. The paper develops estimates of the relationship between employment and trade activity at the firm level, first on an …

employment on skilled versus unskilled workers. The main findings are as follows. Firstly, this paper documents the significant … increase in the aggregate non-production employment share was due to the \within. effect, rather than the \between. effect …

analysis suggests that there is little impact of trade-related variables on individual-level wages, whereas there appears to be … 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 …

In light of the importance of the relationship between trade and employment in Japan, this paper examines the effects … of exports on employment (i.e. the number of workers), working-hours, and total worker-hours (i.e. employment times … estimate the effects of exports on the industry's employment (i.e. direct effect) but also on other industries' employment (i …

some of the associated impacts on output, trade patterns and employment. In agriculture, the story is one of widespread … highlights its continuing role as an employment creator in rural areas, albeit mainly in low-wage occupations. As for its … principal analytical contribution, this paper considers future trade liberalisation in the agricultural sector. Using two …

This paper addresses the relationship between trade, employment and wages in Italy from the perspective of the specific … increase the skill intensity of their activities? What are the effects of these processes on employment and wages? The paper … the employment effects of trade and off-shoring in the Italian manufacturing industry based on a panel of 15 sectors for …

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 …

This paper examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI openness in twenty-nine sectors of the … Chilean economy. Over the last four decades, this country almost fully liberalized its trade and foreign direct investment … analysis, we divide 29 sectors into three groups of high, medium and low levels of trade and foreign direct investment …

and how they have affected the trade patterns of these two European countries and their employment behaviours. … well as in their internationalisation process. This affects many dimensions of each economy, most notably their trade … mind, the purpose of this paper is to consider the evolution of trade and labour market outcomes in Denmark and Spain since …

model of trade with sectoral linkages and a two-stage production technology, in which robots replace labor in certain tasks … exposures to industry-level stocks of robots are derived from their initial industry-employment composition. Foreign automation … is found to decrease manufacturing employment through the channel of final goods exports, while it increases employment …