-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … and estimates the importance of international trade in intermediate inputs and internationally mobile capital for the …

-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

one or more aspects of international trade and factor movements, including trade in goods, trade in value added …, international movement of labor and capital, and trade in risk. All chapters aim to contribute to our understanding of the economic … of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …