exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen des beispiellosen Anstiegs des internationalen Handels zwischen Deutschland und dem … Osten - China und Osteuropa - im Zeitraum 1988-2008 auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Anhand von administrativen …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …

regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import …