Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2000:24

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Labor Demand ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
• Subject: International trade ; Earnings ; Mobility ; Außenhandel ; Einkommenseffekt ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Edin, Per-Anders ; Fredriksson, Peter ; Lundborg, Per
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Uppsala University, Department of Economics
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2000

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82840
• URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-2508
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET