A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time …

country's imports. As a result, trade costs have a heterogeneous impact across country pairs, with some trade flows predicted … equations, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the exporting country only provides a small share of the destination … currency union effect, I find that a currency union is only associated with substantially higher bilateral trade if the …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … trade shocks. High-wage workers are better able to move across employers with minimal earnings losses, and are more likely …

This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization, the phenomenon in which employment for high …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

effects of integration but more pronounced labour market effects from immigration. …

Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants …The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly … constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in …

years 1999-2013. We measure the competition between the loss of collective memory and nostalgia with respect to popular …