This volume investigates the potential performance of the Kyoto Protocol's international trading mechanisms in the presence of diverse types of domestic greenhouse policy instruments.

This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996)...

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...

This book sheds light on environmental and other issues, including global warming, that will deeply affect the future of the automobile and of all American industry.

Whatarethe appropriate role of government in food safety and the changes that should be made in federal policies?

This bookexamines the nonbudget consequences of the entire set of programs and the extent to which general financial regulation affects the farm sector.

This study reviews the contents and implications of major trade agreements, as well as the consequences of failing to secure agricultural trade policy reform.