misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …

of trade flows on employment adjustment in manufacturing. Our results show that both employment growth and job … competition in export markets. These effects are more pronounced when we consider trade flows to the world at large and to the EU … than when the analysis is based on trade flows to the CIS. …

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. …

Societal theories of trade policy stress the importance of domestic interest groups, whereas statist theories focus on … macroeconomic conditions on trade policy to be weaker in fragmented states than in those characterized by a highly centralized … potent impact on trade policy in democracies than in other regimes, since the electoral constraints facing democratic leaders …

comparative advantage (CA) in U.S. services trade with China and India from 1992 to 2010. The results indicate that the U.S. has a …Using bilateral trade data for 16 service categories, this paper examines the patterns, evolution, and determinants of … recently China, gained a CA in modern services, such as computer and information services during the period considered in this …

China's reform worked and produced one of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … in the world in the past twenty-two years. That China has managed to grow so rapidly despite the absence of many … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China's reform is a serial …

contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159 software entrepreneurs in Beijing and Moscow, the study found that …