make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …

Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would … suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be attributed to …

expected to exert a downward pressure on wages. We revisit this issue by applying meta-analytic techniques to a sample of … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search …. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility … and trade lead to a pattern of specialization where large scale regions have a comparative advantage in producing …

wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …