This article describes the construction of the World Input-Output Tables (WIOTs) that constitute the core of the World Input-Output Database. WIOTs are available for the period 1995-2009 and give the values of transactions among 35 industries in 40 countries plus the 'Rest of the World' and from...

The issue of the impact of trade on economic performance and labour markets has been intensively discussed in recent literature on trade liberalization and globalization, where the debate was mainly about identifying the relative impact of trade and technology. The bulk of the existing...

Outsourcing and trade integration of advanced countries is debated with respect to employment effects, in particular for low educated workers - at least in relative terms. We study the employment effects - differentiated by educational attainment levels - of changes in the patterns of trade...