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Title: Adjusting to Globalization - Evidence from Worker-Establishment Matches in Germany

Author(s): Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen and Jens S�dekum

Publication Date: January 2016

Keyword(s): endogenous worker mobility, Individual labour market responses, International trade and work biographies

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: This paper addresses the impact of rising international trade exposure on individual earnings profiles in heterogeneous worker-establishment matches. We exploit rich panel data on job biographies of manufacturing workers in Germany, and apply a high-dimensional fixed effects approach to analyze endogenous mobility between plants, industries, and regions in response to trade shocks. Rising import penetration reduces earnings within job spells, and it induces workers to leave the exposed industries. Intra-industry mobility to other firms or regions are far less common adjustments. This induced industry mobility mitigates the adverse impacts of import shocks in the workers' subsequent careers, but their cumulated earnings over a longer time horizon are still negatively affected. By contrast, we find much less evidence for sorting into export-oriented industries, but the earnings gains mostly arise within job spells. These results point at an asymmetry in the individual labour market response to trade shocks: Import shocks trigger substantial ``push effects'', whereas the ``pull effects'' of export shocks are weaker.

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Dauth, W, Findeisen, S and S�dekum, J. 2016. 'Adjusting to Globalization - Evidence from Worker-Establishment Matches in Germany'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11045