to describe the underlying forces linking trade with factor prices. I argue that missing regional and related inter …-sectoral labor mobility might be a potential factor preventing employees from taking advantage of trade liberalization. To …

track all changes in the trade structure and competitiveness over time. The long-term trend of the indicators suggests that … the Austrian foreign trade sector was able to maintain its market share in the global environment. While the Austrian … foreign trade performance only slightly deviates from the pattern of the traditional industrialised countries, a strong …

Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To … wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a Melitz-type model of international trade with unionized labor markets and … heterogeneous workers we show that: (i) there is a threshold level of UB where all trade gains are destroyed, (ii) this threshold …

In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …, which allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and …

been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc … to theoretically unmotivated attempts to allow for both complete and incomplete specialization influences on gross trade … patterns. This view reveals that countries’ multilateral specialization incentives drive bilateral trade, corresponding to and …

Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a … country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data … on regional trade in Austria is only available on a very limited basis. The aim of this study is to develop new …

Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a … country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data … on regional trade in Austria is only available on a very limited basis. The aim of this study is to develop new …

This policy brief introduces a method to estimate foreign trade of the nine Austrian NUTS-2 regions. The basic idea of … the method is to disaggregate national foreign trade data to the regional level using national input-output, regional … employment and other supplemental data. This allows for the estimation of foreign trade of the Austrian regions for the years …

trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …