different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …

Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among … these flows. The main findings of this Paper can be summarized as follows. First, at least in the 1990s, import trade … liberalization fostered not only trade but also inward investment, confirming that trade and FDI toward developing countries have …

convergence. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, a period both of globalization and convergence, it shows that trade had an … important impact on factor prices in some countries, just as Heckscher and Ohlin would have predicted. Migration was a more …

This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs. low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct …-skill intensive, emigration of high- skill labour leads to positive FDI, suggesting that migration and FDI are complements. Cross …-sectional analysis using FDI and emigration data for 103 migration-sending countries over the period 1990-2000 finds some support for …

The paper studies attitudes toward immigration and trade using an opinion survey of two thousand French individuals. We … find that, beyond usual Stolper-Samuelson effects (skilled individuals are more pro-free trade than others, as in other … countries) attitudes toward trade and immigration are correlated and both are ideologically loaded. Right-wing affiliation is …

environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … pairwise interregional trade across all 50 U.S. states, 26 traded and non-traded industries, labor as a mobile factor, and … matches the U.S. input-output matrix. Using data on trade flows by industry between states, as well as other regional and …

We evaluate the impact of the export promotion program delivered by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service on various … margin, boosting the average level of exports to given product-destination markets. Effects at the extensive margins of trade …

This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments … turn, lower emissions per output. We show that the overall effect of trade is to reduce emissions. Trade weeds out some of … to more productive and cleaner exporters. The overall effect of trade is therefore to reduce emissions. We test empirical …

explanatory power. The estimates also enable us to quantify the exporter wage premium and the consequences of trade for the main … variables of interest. According to our results, openness to international trade contributes to greater inequality across firms … in terms of both operating profits and average wages. We also find evidence for gains from trade for all five countries …

This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, which emphasizes firm selection … this research and its relationship to traditional trade theories. We examine the implications of firm heterogeneity for … comparative advantage, market size, aggregate trade, the welfare gains from trade, and the relationship between trade and income …