labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …

vacancies, firing costs, and unemployment benefits. We study the interaction of labor market rigidities and trade impediments in … shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, and unemployment. We show that both countries gain from trade but that the … frictions in both countries benefits both of them. The model generates rich patterns of unemployment. In particular, better …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

rigidities and trade impediments in shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, price levels and unemployment rates. We show that … patterns of unemployment. Specifically, trade integration -- which benefits both countries -- may raise their rates of … unemployment. Moreover, differences in rates of unemployment do not necessarily reflect differences in labor market rigidities; the …