baseline scenario, it examines how several different scenarios would affect the employment situation of different skill groups …

firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific …

document both the direct employment changes of individuals affected by trade exposure, as well as the employment response of … individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We find substantial differences by gender. Men respond to import competition by … increasing labour force participation at older ages, and by moving into self-employment. This is true both in response to their …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and intensive in labor. The limited empirical evidence suggests that the …