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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration |
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| Institution | University of Zurich : UBS International Center of Economics in Society |
| Series Name | UBS Center Working Paper Series |
| Number | 3 |
| ISSN | 2296-2751 |
| Number of Pages | 34 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Abstract Text | We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988 – 2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this trade integration has caused some 493,000 additional jobs in the economy and contributed to retaining the manufacturing sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall effect on employment relationships. |
| Official URL | http://www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/assets/workingpapers/WP3_The_Rise_of_the_East_and_the_Far_East.pdf |
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| Keywords | International trade, import competition, export opportunities, local labor markets, employment, China, Eastern Europe, Germany |