industries, we show that, after correction for simultaneity bias -- though not before -- the price of oil has large negative …

applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting - more productive … workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …

transportation costs across countries and industries, the Paper first provides estimates of ‘border effects’ among EU countries. The …

trade barriers for manufacturing industries in European Union countries between 1999 and 2003. We find a large degree of … trade cost heterogeneity across industries. The most important trade barriers are transportation costs and policy factors …