Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177103 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11299
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in Germany. To profit from export opportunities, workers adjust through increased employer switching. Highly skilled workers benefit the most, consistent with an increase in skill demand. The incidence of import shocks falls mostly on low-skilled workers, as they are not able to adjust as well as medium- and high-skilled workers. Imports also destroy rents by workers at high-wage plants who separate from their original firm. We connect our results to the growing theoretical literature on the labor market effects of trade.
Subjects: 
work biographies
individual labor market responses
international trade
worker mobility
Germany
JEL: 
F16
J31
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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