This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home …

the impact of trade on both dimensions of income distribution, this paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate on … results emerge. Firstly, the distributional effects of trade are highly sensitive to even minor changes to the assumption of … the 2 x 2 trade model. This suggests that due attention should be paid to the choice of the structural model. Secondly …

consumers and learning of cost-efficient and quality enhancing production methods, or whether all of the differential is due to … firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final …

We develop a new model of trade in which educational institutions drive comparative advantage and determine the … support of human capital choices to demonstrate that freer trade can induce crowding out of the middle occupations towards the … gains from trade may be non-monotonic in workers' ability, and middle ability agents can lose the most from trade …

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous … workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality during the adjustment after trade liberalization. We find that … trade liberalization increases wage inequality both in the short run and in the long run. In the short run, wage inequality …

The paper analyzes the potential trade distortion effects of state trading enterprises (STEs) on soybean imports to …

We use a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers … and endogenous firm entry to analyze economic policy meant to compensate the losers of trade liberalization and reduce the … instrument to reduce the wage inequality after trade liberalization are training subsidies. They increase the supply of skilled …

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … effects of trade liberalization. We show that the gains from trade will be distributed very unequally. While unskilled workers … when a skill-abundant country opens up to trade …