Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? Heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement.

Autor/in	Fries, Jan
Institution	Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? Heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gibt es alters- und qualifikationsspezifische Effekte der Liberalisierung des Handels? Heterogene Beschäftigungseffekte der EU-Osterweiterung.
Quelle	Mannheim (2014), 38 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	ZEW discussion paper. 2014-113
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Beschäftigungseffekt; Arbeitsplatzabbau; Mittlere Berufsausbildung; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Qualifikation; Zusätzlicher Arbeitsplatz; Entlassung; Altersabhängigkeit; IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz; Osterweiterung; Europäische Union; Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung; Arbeitgeber; Arbeitnehmer
Abstract	This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over time induced by the Enlargement, identification of the effects is based on a Melitz (2003) type productivity term to differentiate firms by the extent of exposure to the demand shock. The idea is that the effects of the demand shock should be driven by differences in firm-level productivity from the period before the new member countries actually entered the EU. German linked employer-employee data allow to observe the relation of initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the Enlargement had a negative effect on establishment-level employment growth, which is driven by increased worker separations and increased job destruction. Besides the overall employment effect, the study focuses on effect heterogeneity across age and skill groups of the workforce. These estimates point to a skill bias in the effect of the Enlargement that disadvantages low- and medium-skilled workers in terms of higher worker separation and job destruction. In addition, low-skilled workers suffer fewer accessions by firms, where against medium-skilled workers enjoy increased accessions and creation of new jobs. Besides this indication for a skill bias, there are no clear indications that point to an age bias in the employment effect of the Eastern Enlargement. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/2