The Impact of Import Competition and Export Opportunities on the Dutch Labour Market

We study the impact of rising Chinese and Eastern European import competition and export opportunities between 2001 and 2016 on the Dutch labour market. Both the participation of China in the WTO and the extension of the European Union provide an opportunity to investigate the impact of an unanticip...

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Published inDe Economist (Netherlands) Vol. 170; no. 3; pp. 343 - 374
Main Authors Euwals, Rob, van Heuvelen, Gerrit Hugo, Meijerink, Gerdien, Möhlmann, Jan, Rabaté, Simon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.08.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Springer Verlag
Subjects
Competition
Economic Policy
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Economics
Economics and Finance
Employment
Exports
Growth rate
Humanities and Social Sciences
Imports
Inequality
International trade
Investigations
Labor market
Manufacturing
Microeconomics
Original Paper
Public Finance
Regions
Wages & salaries
Trade
J31
F16
R11
Wages
Employment
Netherlands
Labor market
export
import competition
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Summary:We study the impact of rising Chinese and Eastern European import competition and export opportunities between 2001 and 2016 on the Dutch labour market. Both the participation of China in the WTO and the extension of the European Union provide an opportunity to investigate the impact of an unanticipated increase in trade on 40 Dutch COROP regions. We do not find a robust impact of the increase in trade on local employment, wages and inequality. Results for the Netherlands and other countries can be explained by the initial composition of the employment share across industries.
ISSN:0013-063X
1572-9982
DOI:10.1007/s10645-022-09409-5