Social policies are likely to have an ever-more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the … new World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade … unfair, ecologically unsound, and even immoral to trade with countries adopting much lower standards than theirs. This paper …

While environmental and labour issues are not new to the GATT, nor to other trade policy fora, they are likely to have … a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the newly formed World Trade Organization (WTO …). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade policy as a threat to both their …

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 …

-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … to increases in R&D, patenting, IT and TFP within firms; and second it reallocated employment between firms towards more … in employment, profits, prices and the skill share. By contrast, import competition from developed countries had no …

This paper examines the implications of labour force growth in one region for wages, employment, and production … factor-based trade models and models of two-way trade and returns to specialization. Sufficient conditions for positive trade … linkages between labour force growth in one region and real wage and employment erosion in another are derived. These …

appreciation of the Norwegian Krone in the early 2000s on Norwegian manufacturing firms which differ substantially in their trade … have been associated with employment cuts. Somewhat surprisingly, firm exits did not contribute significantly to aggregate …

implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between … between population growth, trade policy and migration. This is illustrated with numerical examples emphasizing linkages … between changes in the terms of trade and migration patterns. The numerical analysis highlights issues not immediately evident …

the period 1975-2005. In particular, it tests a) whether increases in trade lead to rising inequalities, b) whether these … inequalities recede in time, and c) whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing worlds differently. Using … static and dynamic panel data analysis, it is found that while increases in trade per se do not lead to greater territorial …

This Paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South and South-South trade-related R&D spillovers. It is the first, as … constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South and South-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in …

competitiveness losses), but makes the public aware that the policy-maker is faced with such penalty, and thus helps to overcome the … competitiveness that the country is not allowed to recover at realignments. …