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 …

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 …

of the problem: the theoretical and empirical relationship between tied aid and trade flows. In the first part, we … evaluate the theoretical implications of the use of tied aid as a hidden trade policy. The possibility that aid flows directly … from the well-known strategic trade policy literature, showing that tied aid cannot be considered equivalent to an export …

to freer trade, in most models these costs are assumed to be very small. However, more recent evidence is casting doubt …, facilitating the comparison of short term labour market impacts from trade across countries. Data are reported at the individual … results are consistent with modern trade theory which posits that an expanding export sector rewards mostly high skilled …

This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … practices that trade policymakers may wish to address to ensure that their trade policies attract investors and enhance the …

Barriers to trade come in a variety of forms. This paper examines one such barrier, export restrictions, and how it … impacts trade and global supply in selected strategic metals and minerals. The metals and minerals examined in the paper are … imperfections. This paper examines the motivations for using export restrictions and finds varying impacts on trade and global …

We estimate the effect of international trade on average labour productivity across countries. Our empirical approach … relies on a summary measure of trade that, we argue, is preferable to the one conventionally used on both theoretical and … empirical grounds. In contrast to the marginally significant and non-robust effects of trade on productivity found previously …