Thanks to its empirical success, the gravity approach is widely used to explain trade patterns between countries. In … this article we question the simple application of this approach to product/sector-level trade on two grounds. First, we … expenditures are not strictly equal to sector productions because some trade costs are incurred outside the sector of interest …

There is ample evidence that a country's labour market institutions are important determinants of unemployment. This … study generalises Davis' (1998) idea according to which the institutions of the trade partners matter also for a country …'s equilibrium unemployment rate as they generate comparative advantages. Moreover, the empirical investigation provides some …

This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … analysis of transitions from employment to unemployment. The transition risks from formal employment, that is to saymobility …