Worker industry affiliation plays a crucial role in how trade policy affects wages in many trade models. Yet, most … research has focused on how trade policy affects wages by altering the economy-wide returns to a specific worker characteristic … (i.e. skill or education) rather than through worker-industry affiliation. This Paper exploits drastic trade …

FDI inflows on corruption is stronger than the impact of trade openness and tariff rates on corruption and is validated by … addition to trade intensity and the average tariff level, including dependence on natural resources, ethnic fractionalization …

This Paper studies the relationship between trade liberalization and informality. It is often claimed that increased … comply with labour market legislation. Using data from two countries that experienced large trade barrier reductions in the … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …

The “distance effect” measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been to be rising since the early 1970s …—i.e. the low-income countries according to the World Bank classification, 2006). We show that this group has intensified trade … their trade at both extensive and intensive margins (regionalization of trade is absent for the other countries). Combining …

International trade models typically assume that producers in one country trade directly with final consumers in … another. In the real world, of course, trade can involve long chains of potentially independent actors who move goods through … wholesale and retail distribution networks. These networks likely affect the magnitude and nature of trade frictions and hence …

We consider a Heckscher-Ohlin model in which goods and factors of production can be traded, but trade involves … transactions costs. Goods trade alone will not equalize factor prices, so there is an incentive for trade in factors of production … no trade, there is goods trade only, there is factor trade only, and there is trade in both goods and factors. This …

for diffusion, which suggests that a substantial portion of international technology diffusion is unrelated to trade in …

Agreements are progressively implemented, is projected to have a significant impact on trade flows with Spain, as exports and …-intensive industries, which will confront export displacement in third (EU) markets and some foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion.Trade … trade or of EU trade with the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). The product composition of this trade will …

for technology diffusion, how this has changed over time, and whether international trade, foreign direct investment, and … from the early 1970s to the 1990s. Third, I estimate that trade patterns account for the majority of all differences in …