This paper examines the impact of an export market expansion created by the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA …

global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade … the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …

played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

We use data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey to analyse how public attitudes towards trade have changed over time … in developed economies, and how these attitudes differ across groups in the population. Attitudes towards trade … larger increases in Chinese import competition. Perhaps surprisingly, given that barriers to trade appear to be on the …

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 …

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit …

simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show that: (1) Trade openness … gains from trade are understated when the informal sector is omitted. (3) Trade openness results in large welfare gains even … welfare. (5) The effects of trade on wage inequality are reversed when the informal sector is incorporated in the analysis. (6 …