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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

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Edin, Per-Anders () (Department of Economics)
Fredriksson, Peter () (Department of Economics)
Lundborg, Per (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research)

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Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade: Swedish exports (imports) raise (lower) annual earnings, but changes in trade affect earnings just as any other shift in market conditions. In general, the wage effects are small; the prime response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has differential effects across skill groups. However, we do not find systematic differences in the effects of trade across the earnings distribution.

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Paper provided by Uppsala University, Department of Economics in its series Working Paper Series with number 2000:24.

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Length: 29 pages
Date of creation: 18 Dec 2000
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Publication status: Published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, pages 231-241.
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Keywords: International trade; Earnings; Mobility;

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F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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