values, the elasticities of wages, prices, taxes, and government transfers with respect to national labor supplies, as well …

attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a dominant role of the retail distribution margin. Second, at the level of … individual goods and services, the average contribution of service-sector wages is significantly reduced, one-third as large (31 … consistent with the notion that baby-sitting services and haircuts embody local wages to a far greater extent than highly traded …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start …

elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a new simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this … elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data and we use it within Eaton and Kortum's (2002) Ricardian model. We apply … elasticity of roughly four, nearly fifty percent lower than Eaton and Kortum's (2002) approach. This difference doubles the …

countries. The cross-country income elasticity of establishment size is remarkably similar across sectors, about 0.3. We discuss …

estimation suggests that these structural factors can account for the Chinese exchange rate almost completely …

. Using a fixed effects estimation strategy, we find significant temperature sensitivity of per capita income that varies …