TY - CHAP

T1 - Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: Evidence from the German clothing industry and the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing

AU - Braakmann, Nils

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Globalization and its impact on the employment prospects and wages of domestic workers have been a mayor source of concern in many industrialized countries. In this paper, we use a quasi-experimental design by exploiting a large import shock caused by the final two stages of the phasing-out of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) that hit the German clothing industry after 2002. Using a non-affected but similar industry, the shoe industry, as a control group, we study labor market adjustments on both the firm and the individual level.

AB - Globalization and its impact on the employment prospects and wages of domestic workers have been a mayor source of concern in many industrialized countries. In this paper, we use a quasi-experimental design by exploiting a large import shock caused by the final two stages of the phasing-out of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) that hit the German clothing industry after 2002. Using a non-affected but similar industry, the shoe industry, as a control group, we study labor market adjustments on both the firm and the individual level.

KW - Economics

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-658-03456-6_10

DO - 10.1007/978-3-658-03456-6_10

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-658-03455-9

SP - 201

EP - 224

BT - Daten in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung

A2 - Hirschel, Dierk

A2 - Paic, Peter

A2 - Zwick, Markus

PB - Gabler Verlag

CY - Wiesbaden

ER -