The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the “new” theory of international trade, but it is …

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very …

employment growth and of size and job reallocation. Finally, we establish that strong foreign trade links force firms to shed … labour more aggressively and to engage in more restructuring when trade is directed to and originating from Western economies …. This disciplining function is absent when the trade flows are confined to CIS countries. …

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East … Europe. Trade does not affect wages at all, and hardly affect employment. Thus one can expect that, while the Austrian labour …

This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on …

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic … Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …

inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance …