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 …

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 …

perfectly inelastic. In this paper, we show that the measure of protection matters, by estimating the Trade Restrictiveness … interpretation of some key moments of Italian trade policy and we show that the aggregate welfare losses were small in the long run … protection affect considerably the results of econometric tests on the causal relation between trade policy on economic growth in …

Trade Organization, has increased levels of patent protection around the world. Since patents also have the potential to …

This paper derives optimal trade and domestic taxes for a small open economy containing a monopolistically competitive … protection arise from terms of trade effects and, since various margins of substitution are switched off, only the relative …

, intermediate goods, and multiple factors of production---affect the magnitude of the gains from trade liberalization. We conclude …

benefit from deeper trade integration. It discusses the policy agenda that confronts many developing countries and identifies … policymakers and researchers on the interaction between trade policy, economic development and the GATT/WTO trading system, but …