2014
DOI: 10.1111/jeea.12092
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The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration

Abstract: We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" -China and Eastern Europe -in the period 1988 -2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German regions specialized in import-co… Show more

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“…6 In line with previous studies (e.g. Autor et al 2014;Dauth et al 2014;Dauth et al 2016) we find that workers employed in industries that benefit from increasing export opportunities experience higher earnings, whereas workers employed in importcompeting industries suffer from lower earnings. We find that the negative effects of import competition are stronger for low-skilled workers.…”
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confidence: 81%
“…6 In line with previous studies (e.g. Autor et al 2014;Dauth et al 2014;Dauth et al 2016) we find that workers employed in industries that benefit from increasing export opportunities experience higher earnings, whereas workers employed in importcompeting industries suffer from lower earnings. We find that the negative effects of import competition are stronger for low-skilled workers.…”
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confidence: 81%
“…Due to these changes, Chinese exporters may have benefited from the EURO introduction through substitution of import sources in some European countries (e.g. Dauth et al, 2014). To evaluate this possibility, GIPS countries' RCA for the years 1999-2001 is interacted with the WTO dummy.…”
Section: European Eventsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The sizable contribution of processing trade to China's overall export growth (Amiti and Freund, 2010), and the differential exporting behavior of private domestic and foreign-invested enterprises in China (Manova and Zhang, 2009), justify speculations that export market entry of these firms follows different rules than those derived from firm-level studies in high-income regions. 2 For instance, firms in emerging 1 See, for instance, Bernard et al (2006); Bloom et al (2011); Autor et al (2013Autor et al ( , 2014; Dauth et al (2014); Utar (2014Utar ( , 2015 for the most recent contributions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is about twice the impact identified by ADH for the US. Dauth, Findeisen and Suedekum (2014) undertake a similar exercise for Germany, and find that increased exposure to imports from China reduces the manufacturing employment share in German local labor markets by about 0.14 percentage points, although Germany's improved export opportunities thanks to the rise of China compensate for this negative effect. We do not find that this is the case for Norway.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%