and the linkage between trade and risk: While, on average, individuals with higher levels of industry- or occupation … of industry-specific human capital can be costly for workers in highly trade-exposed industries. By contrast, we find no … evidence of any interaction between risk, industry trade exposure, and occupation-specific human capital …

document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the … with our data, and find large barriers to labor specialization. This setting is close, in terms of aggregate productivity …

This paper proposes that strong financial, judicial, and labor market institutions provide comparative advantage in … exports in clean industries, even conditional on environmental regulation and factor endowments. Third, an industry …

national minimum wage, we construct external instruments for materials and labor choices. We implement a simple two …-step instrumental-variables method, first estimating a difference equation to recover the materials and labor coefficients and then …

the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light …

We assess whether and why trade competition partly explains the sharp decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize … labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union … indirectly exposed through its effect on their local labor market. Consistent with a simple model of workers' decision to seek …