Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2025
This paper examines how trade liberalization-induced labor demand shocks affect wages and non-wage working conditions …. Using exogenous trade shocks from EU enlargement and worker-level data, we find that export liberalization increases … unemployment. Import liberalization weakly affects working conditions but, consistent with previous studies, lowers wages as firms …