In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment … oppoortunities. Estimation of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men and a comparison sample of legal workers provides …

This paper analyses the decline in unskilled employment in UK manufacturing. …

We expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced …

The proposition that labour market adjustments to intra-industry trade are less costly than adjustments to inter …-industry trade is a widely-held belief amongst trade economists. If it is the case that there are significant sector-specific skills …

trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in … display an extremely consistent relationship with participation to service trade across firm groups pointing to strong …

This Paper presents strong evidence for the concavity of wages in job and worker characteristics by adding second order …. The impact of search frictions on wages is large. Our results relate to the literature on industry wage differentials, on …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between … between population growth, trade policy and migration. This is illustrated with numerical examples emphasizing linkages … between changes in the terms of trade and migration patterns. The numerical analysis highlights issues not immediately evident …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and employment …. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar producing regions experience larger wage increases. Employment … experience larger income gains due to higher wages, whereas households at the bottom of the distribution experience larger income …