Adjusting to Globalization in Germany

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens
• 署名单位: University of Wurzburg; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); University of Konstanz; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/707356
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 263-302
• 关键词: trade liberalization; import competition; earnings losses; wage; INEQUALITY; workers; adjustment; rise

摘要

We study the impact of trade exposure on the job biographies of 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany. Rising export opportunities lead to two equally important sources of earnings gains: on the job and employer switches within the same industry. Highly skilled workers benefit the most. Import shocks mostly hurt low-skilled workers, especially when they possess lots of industry-specific human capital. They also destroy workers' rents when separating from high-wage plants, and they leave strongly scarring effects in the event of a mass layoff. We connect our results to the growing theoretical literature on the labor market effects of trade.