decades. We argue that pervasive skill biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is … depressing effect on their relative wages through world goods prices. In contrast, in the Heckscher-Ohlin model with small open … economies, the skill-bias of local technological changes do not affect wages. Thus, pervasiveness deals with a major criticism …

Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically … individual wages, controlling for individual and firm heterogeneity as well as for possible selection bias in foreign … negative effect on wages. …

FDI can be an important channel for developing countries’ ability to get access to new technology. The impact of FDI on … demonstration effects could have a positive impact. Another and so far little examined effect of FDI on technology development in … domestically-owned firms is through the impact on competition. We examine the effect of FDI on competition in the Chinese …

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger …

trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of …

trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and …