We graphically illustrate the mobility patterns in Figure 1. The dark areas show that, over both decades in our observation period, around 60% of the workers in our sample have not switched their employer – that is, they work for the same plant at the beginning and at the end of the decade. That leaves roughly 40% of individuals having some kind of job change, which decomposes into different types of mobility. Less than 10% switched jobs within their original manufacturing industry (the medium grey area), which includes intra-industry plant switches in the same and in different regions. More than 30% changed industries when switching their employer. That is, conditional on switching, more than 75% of this mobility occurs was across industries, and less than 25% was within the same industry. This mobility can mean taking up a job in another manufacturing industry (light grey area), or moving to the service industry (white area). This latter response is by far the most common mobility pattern, and this also seems to be the explanation for the asymmetric response to trade shocks – displaced workers who are pushed out of import-competing industries do not primarily churn within the manufacturing sector and get pulled into export-oriented branches; they are pushed out of manufacturing altogether.