To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasingreturns to scale (IRS) and …. However, of the recent IRS/ICmodels used to simulate the effects of trade liberalization none have empirically tested for …

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under thefollowing (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally,we identify and summarize the existing research gaps …

variation across sectors intariff changes after the Colombian trade reform to assess whether the impact of marketfundamentals on … ofproductivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selectionfrom trade reform help to weed out the … least productive plants and increase averageproductivity. In addition, we find that trade liberalization increases …

This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness iscausally associated to a … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …. Thepreferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reducesunemployment by about one percentage …