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

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 …

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. …

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …

raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …

quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …