Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic …

-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import …We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … trade integration has caused some 493,000 additional jobs in the economy and contributed to retaining the manufacturing …

The impact of imports from low-wage countries on domestic labor market outcomes has been a hotly debated issue for … decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have … experienced contemporaneous increases in the volume of imports and in the wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers. However …

stage, we relate our parameters of interest to trade variables. Our results show that imports from developed countries have …This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language … result of actual improvements in English language speaking abilities, we show that low-skilled immigrants in trade … little support for selective domestic migration in response to trade shocks, we present evidence suggesting that new …