This paper examines the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion on TFP growth in small and large … states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion, with …

its size and welfare impact, and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration-trade …-South migration raises bloc size and welfare; iv) South-South migration and trade are complements under market access negotiations and …

market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 1984–91 to investigate this claim on plant … increase in foreign competition due to unilateral trade liberalization disproportionately drove discriminating plants out of … the market. Finally, we investigate whether trade liberalization affected hiring decisions (and thus gender segregation …

inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Gartzke et al. (2001), who reject the … opportunity costs as the basis for the inverse trade-conflict relationship, thus implying that one need not rely on signaling. …

Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration …

) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i … variables – education, governance or openness – result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …

Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs … of the impact of trade are related to their career paths, job characteristics, and local labor market conditions …