Trade, Job Destruction and Job Creation in European Manufacturing

Chiara Bentivogli and Patrizio Pagano ()

Open Economies Review, 1999, vol. 10, issue 2, 165-184

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of international trade with the newly industrialized Asian economies on the labor markets of Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. The analysis confirms that, despite the growing importance of this trade, the problems of the European labor market can hardly be explained by the increase in imports of manufactures from the Nies. While job destruction appears completely independent from the trade flows with the emerging Asian economies, the evidence on job creation is less clear cut. In two cases imports appear to have depressed employment dynamics, but in another exports turn out to have stimulated it. The most striking evidence is on sector-specific features and individual characteristics, such as sector of (last) employment, sex and education: these variables appear to be much more important than trade in explaining individuals' positions in the labor market. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Keywords: European labor markets; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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