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• ISQOLS Webinar: Trade and Job (In)Security: The Two Sides of Import Exposure

  • When
    28 Jul 2021
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    7:00 AM (PDT)
  • Location
    Online Webinar

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  ISQOLS WEBINAR:

  Trade and Job (In)Security: The Two Sides of Import Exposure

  
  

  THURSDAY

  July 28

  07:00 AM PST;

  10:00 AM EST;

  4:00pm/16:00 CET

  
  

  FREE 

  We study the causal impact of occupation-level import exposure on perceived job security. To that end, we use German worker-level panel data combined with global input-output data for 2000-2014 and an instrumental variables strategy. We show that imports from China and Eastern Europe that substitute for domestic production (i.e., competition-increasing imports) worsen workers' job insecurity. Simultaneously, exposure to Chinese and Eastern European intermediate imports (i.e., productivity-enhancing imports) boosts job security. The productivity-enhancing channel more than offsets the job insecurity caused by competition-increasing imports, meanwhile. The job (in)security effects we document are homogeneous across workers with different unemployment experience, individual risk preferences, and occupational tenure. Nevertheless, effects are more pronounced among groups that are more likely to be informed about imports, such as supervisors and those with high education. Our results are robust to a battery of sensitivity checks and highlight that the implications of trade are more multifaceted than previously thought.

  Robin Konietzny is currently a PhD Candidate at the Department of Global Economics & Management at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He holds a Research Master in Economics from the University of Groningen and a Double Degree Master in International Economics & Business from the University of Groningen and the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research focuses on workers' responses to trade integration and the implications of these for their well-being. Specifically, he is interested in capturing the features of global value chains and how these relate to individual employment circumstances.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• 2021 ISQOLS Virtual Conference

  • Start
    23 Aug 2021
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    8:00 AM (UTC-07:00)
  • End
    27 Aug 2021
  •  
    9:00 AM (UTC-07:00)
  • Location
    Online Virtual Event

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  ISQOLS 2021 CONFERENCE

  “Quality-of-life and Adaptation in a Virulent World”

  VIRTUAL EVENT

  23-27 AUGUST 2021

  Given the uncertainty of the current global pandemic, travel restrictions, and planning challenges the 2021 ISQOLS Annual Conference will be held virtually August 23 through the 27th, 2021 (specific times to be announced). The ISQOLS 2021 Conference will offer a forum for discussion of the research findings concerning quality of life, well-being, and happiness, similar to all of our past, in-person conferences. The theme of the Conference is “quality-of-life and adaptation in a virulent world”. The world has changed dramatically in the past year. How do we now examine quality-of-life, wellbeing, and happiness? What are the challenges and opportunities for well-being research and policy in the face of a global pandemic? What important work is being carried out to encourage personal, communal, environmental, and social resiliency in a Covid-19 world? We invite researchers, practitioners, students, professionals, faculty, retirees, experts and novices to participate and engage in this virtual event. ISQOLS MEMBERS: receive early info and registration discounts! Not a member? Join us at https://isqols.org/join

  
  

  
  

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