There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We set up a simple monopolistic competition model … labor, a number of tenets of the new trade and geography literature no longer hold. We also show that in order to explain … explain the agglomeration of economic activity observed in the real world. -- Trade and location ; land for production …