This paper answers the question which developing countries have gained and which have lost in the international division of labor during the last thirty years. The indicators used are GDP per capita in constant purchasing power parity and relative distance to the United States. Nearly all...

See also the publication in the <I>European Economic Review</I>, 2002, 301-327.<P> The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenouseconomies with intergenerational transfers carried out in the form of bequest and investmentin human capital. We examine in competitive...</p></i>

The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous

We explore the uses of double-calibrated general equilibrium models as a decomposition tool for analysing contributory factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to start and end years, based upon an assumed functional...