This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … monopolistic competition. The model allows me to account for the observed empirical patterns, and delivers novel insights about the …

has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the … workers buy personal services. Fiercer foreign competition triggered by technological catching up shifts production jobs …

I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they … illustrates the importance of industry-specific human capital in trade adjustment and provides initial evidence of skill upgrading … textile and clothing products in conjunction with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-natural experiment and utilize …

find that openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower …, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …

We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to import competition from China have experienced a greater deterioration … in sentiment. Third, the trade-induced U.S. sentiment toward China is broad-based, encompassing political, military, and …

This paper introduces a framework to study the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality and welfare in the … wages on the right side of the distribution. Nevertheless, inequality in the open economy is always higher than in autarky … of workers for working at different firms generates between-firm wage inequality for workers with identical skills. The …

trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different …, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in …

the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … substantial role. While education has been another factor contributing to both between-plant and within-plant wage inequality …