increasingly active since the World Trade Organization (WTO) Singapore Ministerial Declaration. On a regional level, social clauses … are now being introduced inside preferential-trade agreements. These evolutions feed the debate regarding the link between … labour standards and trade. This article takes a closer look at this debate and re-assesses the traditional economic analysis …

rise in wage inequality, the role played by trade in this trend remains a matter of debate. Using a firm-level database … trade-induced technological change could explain the increase in the relative demand for skilled workers. The empirical … confirm that trade-induced technology adoption was a channel through which openness to trade raised the relative demand for …

This paper is dedicated to a theoretical and empirical survey of the relationship between trade, growth, poverty and … therefore estimated the direct impact of trade on income or income growth. But this raises the problem of endogeneity of trade … to income, knowing that openness defined according to trade cannot be easily related to trade policies. As it is shown in …

gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one … hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … openness. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the standards of work tend to trade more with no …

gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one … hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … openness. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the standards of work tend to trade more with no …

The impact of trade reforms on the labor market may transit through many channels. One of these is the effect on labor … unskilled categories in order to analyze the effects of trade policies on labor demand elasticities by skill in Tunisia. We use … dynamic panel techniques to estimate a model of employment determination which incorporates the effects of trade and takes …

of exporters) and intensive (volume of exports) margins of international trade. The article's main contribution is its …. It also presents new information on firm behavior under financial constraints. The paper develops a trade model with … firms' export volumes once they become exporters. An empirical analysis is developed on the basis of an international trade …