This paper revisits the relationship between labour taxation and international trade, focusing on the role of domestic … labour value added. Using sectoral data from 41 EU and OECD economies over the period 2005- 2014, we assess how labour taxes … affect exports and imports and how domestic labour value added shapes this relationship. We find that higher labour taxes …

antidumping (AD) laws amongst WTO members. Contrary to the regnant belief that this proliferation is driven mainly by retaliatory … motives, our model shows that adoption and use of AD laws involve a cooperative act amongst WTO members in an infinite horizon … game. The diffusion of AD laws need not result in a Prisonner.s dilemma. Instead we show that the AD agreement of the WTO …

. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across …

regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries …

Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid …-owned enterprises while encouraging growth of the private sector. Following an East Asian model, Vietnam has opened its domestic market …

use four large-scale representative household surveys from Vietnam for the period 1998-2006 to estimate the impact of … that the impact was large in Vietnam but is severely underestimated if changes in employment opportunities are ignored. …

improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also …

carried out in four countries—Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam—which have all become more integrated with the … ; Bangladesh ; Kenya ; South Africa ; Vietnam ; textiles ; garments ; horticulture …