This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work- force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition performance of importers during a period significant increase services imports (2002-2012). We use world export supply shocks, which we allocate firms based their highly specialized input structure, as an instrument identify the ...

This note studies the impact on the adjustment process of Uruguayan manufacturing firms’ capital, and unskilled and skilled labor demands associated with increasing import penetration from China and India. The adjustment process is defined as the percentage of the gap between desired (optimal) and actual factor employment levels closed by the firm. Desired factor levels are obtained from a coun...

his study examined the long-run relationship between Nigerian exports and imports between 1960 and 2014. Exports and imports were disaggregated into oil and non-oil components. The application of the Johansen, Bound testing and the Hansen parameter instability test cointegration techniques revealed that Nigerian exports and imports at the aggregate and disaggregated level are cointegrated with ...

Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze migration response American workers two most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since late 1990s – Chinese import competition and introduction industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure across local over time, show r...

Bangladesh suffers from a chronic deficit in her trade balance. The paper is an attempt to explore the imports of Bangladesh which is one of the most significant factors responsible for unfavorable trade balance of the country. The aim of the study is to intend some initiatives for an attempt to ultimately reshaping the trade balance of Bangladesh with her foreign trade partners. The paper exam...

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm level data over the period 1980-2001. We first depict the simultaneous increasing trends in international openness and in demand for skills and we show that the shift of the relative demand for labour was mainly d...

Do rich and poor countries export the same goods to the US? Using highly disaggregate trade flow data – which breaks US imports into thousands rather than tens of goods – this paper documents two significant trends. First, the number of US imports originating in either rich or poor countries exclusively has fallen dramatically as the world has globalized, from 50% in 1972 to 25% in 1994. This g...

This paper investigates the effects of trade in food on obesity in Mexico. We classify Mexican food imports from the U.S. into healthy and unhealthy and match these with anthropometric and food expenditure survey data. We exploit variation across Mexican states in their exposure to food imports from the U.S.. We find that imports of unhealthy foods significantly contribute to the rise of obesit...

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact international trade on employment in Turkish manufacturing industry over 2003-2017 period. Specifically, analyzes effects Turkey’s with its major trading partners, namely, European Union countries, Russia, United States, Iraq, and China. findings reveal that increased exports selected countries lead generation manufacturing. Both imports from have ...