Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161092 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10469
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in import-competing than in export-oriented branches. We first document the individual-level job transitions behind those trends. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young entrants and returnees from non-employment. We then investigate if rising trade with China and Eastern Europe causally affected those labor flows. Exploiting variation across industries and regions, we find that globalization did not speed up the manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy.
Subjects: 
trade
structural transformation
manufacturing
labor markets
JEL: 
F16
J21
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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