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Intra-industry trade and labour market adjustment: A reassessment using data on individual workers

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Joanne Kathryn Lindley () (Department of Economics, The University of Sheffield)
Marius Brullhart
Rob Elliott

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We re-examine the relationship between intra-industry trade and labour reallocation, using individual-level data on manufacturing worker moves in the United Kingdom. The contribution of this analysis is twofold. First, we estimate the impact of intra-industry trade on worker moves between occupations as well as between industries. Second, we run individual-level regressions that allow us to control for worker heterogeneity. Our results suggest that intra-industry trade does have the stipulated attenuating effect on worker moves, both between occupations and between industries, but that this effect is relatively small compared to other determinants of labour reallocation.

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Paper provided by The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2005005.

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Date of creation: May 2005
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Keywords: Intra-industry trade; worker mobility; labour-market adjustment.;

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F1 - International Economics - - Trade
J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models

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  1. Abdul K. M. Azhar & Robert J. R. Elliott, 2008. "On the Measurement of Changes in Product Quality in Marginal Intra-Industry Trade," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 144(2), pages 225-247, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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