Trade logistics facilitate trade. Quality logistics services play an important role in facilitating the transportation … of international trade in goods: inefficient logistics services impede trade by imposing an extra cost in terms of time … that trade logistics play in the volume and value of international trade and the extent to which poor quality logistics …

Dynamic gains from trade can be an important conduit for increased firm-level innovation and productivity, both key … components of economic growth. This paper builds on previous research on the dynamic gains from trade by moving beyond a single … gains through the import of intermediate inputs and capital goods and systematically explores the specific impacts of non-trade …

well as in their internationalisation process. This affects many dimensions of each economy, most notably their trade … mind, the purpose of this paper is to consider the evolution of trade and labour market outcomes in Denmark and Spain since … the early 1990s, in order to provide policy-relevant insights on the relationship between production, trade and labour …

Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of … exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an … unequivocally clear picture of the trade impacts of changes in exchange rates. The impact of exchange rate volatility on trade also …

This paper examines, in France, the relationship between imports – and trade more generally – and employment. It builds … on the burgeoning literature relating trade and labour markets, taking into account theories of firm-level trade and … covering trade, economic variables and employment for the time period from 1995 to 2004. The data set covers manufacturing …

We analyze the effects of trade liberalization on Mexican employment at an occupational level for the period from 1992 … to 2009, ranking occupations by skill level. We find that the reduction in trade costs associated with Mexico's entry to …-biased technological change in Mexico, and in favour of a heterogeneous-firm model of trade in tasks where the offshoring cost of an …

The aims of this paper are to review the main schools of thought on the political economy of trade and employment, to …‘ willingness to open markets and thereby limit the potential gains from trade. These issues are explored through a structured …, focusing on the role of different types of political actors in the formation of policy concerning trade-and-employment issues …

considers the link between trade and labour market outcomes in Germany. To that end we combine individual-level data from the … German Socio Economic Panel for the period 1999 to 2007 with industry-level data on various aspects of trade – exports … analysis suggests that there is little impact of trade-related variables on individual-level wages, whereas there appears to be …