This course covers the most important theories and recent empirical work on labor market effects of immigration, trade, local agglomerations and technology touching on the recent trends in the structure of employment and wages in US and Europe.

Weighing the shadow of history on contemporary economic performance occupies an increasing part of the agenda among growth and development economists. This series of lectures will focus on recent contributions in the literature of the historical determinants of comparative development paying...

This three-lecture course reviews the recent advances in the area of international trade and labor markets. The course introduces the new heterogenous-firms framework, which was recently shown to be fruitful for the analysis of the effects of globalization on labor market outcomes.

NOITS aims to organise annual workshops with presentations by Nordic researchers and graduate students specialising in international economics. In addition a few non-Nordic researchers with a considerable international reputation will be invited. The network serves several purposes. First, it...